- Private investigators, Fiction, History, New York Times bestseller
Doc Sportello is bewildered when an ex-girlfriend returns to recruit him in a plot to kidnap a wealthy construction executive. Soon, Sportello finds himself in the midst of a thrilling conspiracy with an undercover cop and a group of dentists who are swindling the IRS.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Cool, plot-driven, nostalgic and open-ended.
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Thomas Pynchon
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Tusquets, Penguin Random House, Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- French, Dutch, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9789023450320
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 21 have read it and 38 want to.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), [The Crying of Lot 49](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2636665W) (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and Mason & Dixon (1997). Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The Luminaries 201365% alikeClose across the board.
Plain Bad Heroines 202063% alikeClose across the board; this one is more overwhelming.
Magpie Murders 201663% alikeClose across the board.- Foucault's Pendulum 198961% alikeBoth cool.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union 200661% alikeClose across the board.
Close across the board.
The State of the Art 198960% alikeClose across the board.
Trust 202260% alikeBoth cool.
The Long Goodbye 197377% alikeFilm · Both cool.
American Hustle 201371% alikeFilm · Close across the board.