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Book SynopsisThe first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.
The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious, V. as become a modern classic.
''The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation'' Ian Rankin, Guardian
''To read V. today is to experience Pynchon anew'' New Yorker
Trade ReviewA remarkable book * Sunday Telegraph *
To read
V. today is to experience Pynchon anew. Blast through the multilayered densities of
Gravity's Rainbow,
Mason & Dixon, and
Against the Day, and you have a young Cornell graduate, an engineer from Long Island, writing with an earnestness you might not have expected, about a world he could never recover * New Yorker *
[Pynchon's] ambitions in
V. are prodigious, enough to demand comparison less with Perelman than with the Joyce of the Circe episode of
Ulysses * New York Review of Books 1963 *
The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation -- Ian Rankin * Guardian *
[Pynchon] writes richer comedy than most card-carrying comic novelists, filling his eight novels with hilarious spoofs, outlandish characters, screwball dialogue and zany scenarios * Guardian *
