- American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, Civilization
Follows the orbits of old acquaintances headed for a less than harmonic convergence in Northern California in 1984.
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Prestige, cool, contemplative and open-ended.
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- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Thomas Pynchon
- First published
- June 2003
- Pages
- 385
- Publisher
- QPD by arrangement with Octopus Books, Penguin Random House, Maxi-Tusquets
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788483108642
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“LATER than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.”
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
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