- Eastern Europe, espionage, Milwaukee (Wisconsin), missing persons
A cheese heiress skips Milwaukee in 1932; her father hires a private investigator to retrieve her from, eventually, eastern Europe.
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Cool, classical in form, grave and plot-driven.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Thomas Pynchon
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Diversified Publishing, Penguin Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781787336339
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“When trouble comes to town, it usually takes the North Shore Line.”
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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