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Against the Dayby Thomas PynchonISBN 0099512335 (0-09-951233-5)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Day'Book summary:Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. It is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be. [via]
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Meby Richard Farina, Thomas PynchonISBN 0140189300 (0-14-018930-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me'Book summary:This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book. [via]
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 006091307X (0-06-091307-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot 49'Book summary:The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0099533219 (0-09-953321-9)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
More editions of Gravity's Rainbow:
- Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140283382 (0-14-028338-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0143039946 (0-14-303994-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0099511754 (0-09-951175-4)
Hardcover, Random House - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140106618 (0-14-010661-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140996990 (0-14-099699-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0224009605 (0-224-00960-5)
Hardcover, Cape - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0224009621 (0-224-00962-1)
Hardcover, Random House - Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0099533219 (0-09-953321-9)
Softcover, Random House
- Gravity's Rainbow: ISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
Mason and Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 009927504X (0-09-927504-X)
Softcover, Random House
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Slow Learnerby Thomas PynchonISBN 0224022830 (0-224-02283-0)
Hardcover, Cape
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Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 0060930217 (0-06-093021-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'V'Book summary:Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. [via]
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Vinelandby Thomas PynchonISBN 0141180633 (0-14-118063-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vineland'Book summary:Seventeen years after he shocked and dazzled readers with Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon returns with a novel as astonishing, as kaleidoscopic, as funny, and as satisfying as that legendary work. Vineland is peopled with a startling array of quirky characters and combines elements of daytime drama and the political thriller, resulting in a haunting evocation of 20th-century America. [via]
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