{"product_id":"v-thomas-pynchon-9780099533313","title":"V. Thomas Pynchon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe quest for \u003ci\u003eV.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation'' Ian Rankin, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''To read \u003ci\u003eV. \u003c\/i\u003etoday is to experience Pynchon anew'' \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable book * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eTo read \u003ci\u003eV. \u003c\/i\u003etoday is to experience Pynchon anew. Blast through the multilayered densities of \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 *\u003cbr\u003e[Pynchon's] ambitions in \u003ci\u003eV\u003c\/i\u003e. are prodigious, enough to demand comparison less with Perelman than with the Joyce of the Circe episode of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e * New York Review of Books 1963 *\u003cbr\u003eThe greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation -- Ian Rankin * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e[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 *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732274917719,"sku":"9780099533313","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099533313.jpg?v=1719996232","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/v-thomas-pynchon-9780099533313","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}