Against the Day
| AUTHOR | Pynchon, Thomas; Pynchon, Thomas |
| PUBLISHER | Penguin Books (11/01/2007) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
A New York Times Bestseller - A Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Notable Book "[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." --The New York Times Book Review "Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar . . . Buy Against the Day." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
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ISBN-13:
9780143112563
ISBN-10:
0143112562
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
1104
Carton Quantity:
16
Product Dimensions:
5.50 x 2.00 x 8.30 inches
Weight:
1.85 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product - Canadian,
Price on Product,
Table of Contents
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Fiction | Historical - General
Fiction | Literary
Fiction | Alternative History
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
FIC
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A New York Times Bestseller - A Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A New York Times Notable Book "[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." --The New York Times Book Review "Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar . . . Buy Against the Day." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
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