Shadow Ticket
Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket arrives like a cipher slipped under the door of contemporary America.
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to history, art, science, and popular culture. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive. Few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s.
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Entropy
explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party; other stories included in the volume
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The Crying of Lot 49
The story of Oedipa Maas and her investigations into a world of wild conspiracies. Then a stamp auction.
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Vineland
An exploration of the clash between the counterculture ideals of the 1960s and the conservative political climate of the 1980s.
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Bleeding Edge
Forensic accountant Maxine Tarnow metaphorically reviews the books of post-9/11 weird cybercultures.
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Mason & Dixon
Written in the vernacular of 18th century English, this book follows the British pair of scientists as they plot the geographical course of history in the so-called new world.
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V.
A dizzying and complex novel with two interwoven narratives that take us through numerous adventures of a particular era in European history.
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Inherent Vice
A pothead detective manages somehow to solve the crime.
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