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Gravity's Rainbow is a novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. Set primarily in Europe during the final months of the Second World War, the narrative follows several characters connected to the German V-2 rocket program. The novel incorporates themes of probability, determinism,...
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Landmark postmodern novel, National Book Award winner, immense critical prestige despite difficulty and polarizing excess.
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The Crying of Lot 49 is a 1966 postmodern novella by American author Thomas Pynchon. The plot centers on Oedipa Maas, a woman in California who is named co-executor of her ex-lover's estate. As she investigates his assets, she uncovers a centuries-old underground postal conspiracy known as the Trist...
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Canonical Pynchon novella, widely taught and praised, accessible entry to his paranoia and entropy themes.
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Against the Day is a 2006 historical novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon. Its sprawling narrative moves through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brings together adventure, political conflict, science, mathematics, travel, and speculative elements. The book uses multiple inte...
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Critics admire its intellectual scope, historical imagination, and comic invention; sprawling structure, digressions, and demanding length produce notably divided reader ratings.
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