Against the Day

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49 , Gravity's Rainbow , Slow Learner , a collection of short stories, Vineland , Mason and Dixon , Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge . He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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; Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.

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A fine example of a successful marriage between the popular and intellectual, between fiction and science... gloriously, demandingly, daringly, Pynchon has rediscovered vulgarity and continues to prove the novel has never been more vibrant, more various or better able to represent our complex world. Give this book your time - you'll agree its worth it Michael Moorcock Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Pynchon
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780099512332
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951233-2
• No. of pages: 1232
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 54 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), FICTION / Multiple Timelines, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA), chicago; new york; colorado; gravity's rainbow; pynchon