Against The Day

Author: Thomas Pynchon

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  • : $37.99 AUD
  • : 9780099512332
  • : Random House
  • : Random House
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  • : 0.752
  • : October 2007
  • : 197mm X 129mm X 51mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 29.99
  • : July 2007
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : oc2007199954
  • : 1232
  • : Modern fiction
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Description

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the revolution, Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Meanwhile, Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-fact occurrences occur. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.

Promotion info

'All that is glorious and exhilarating about Pynchon is found here... a mighty novel that will delight Pynchonians and seduce new-comers' Observer

Author description

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland and Mason & Dixon. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.