- Fiction, Missing persons, Psychological fiction, Bohemianism
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.
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Prestige, cool, open-ended and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Thomas Pynchon, Carlos Martín
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 492
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Tb., Lippincott, Modern Library
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- German, English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780394603728
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“Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.”
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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