A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book.
Thomas Pynchon was born in Long Island, USA in 1937. He took a
scholarship at Cornell University and studied Engineering before
switching to study English. He has served in the United States Navy
and worked as a technical writer at Boeing.
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot
49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow
Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland,
Mason & Dixon. Against the Day, and most recently
Inherent Vice. He received the national book award for
Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
These six very different titles are the latest crop of Penguin's redesigned "Classics Deluxe Editions" Each volume features kick-ass covers drawn by some of today's top graphic artists, including Frank Miller, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Thomas Ott, Chester Brown, and Tomer Hanuka, with introductions by the likes of Jonathan Lethem and Doris Lessing. Note that the de Sade cover features some nudity and the Lawrence graphics include comics using the F-word and depicting sex acts, so proceed with caution (you'll laugh, but some of your patrons may not). Nonetheless, all beauties. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might
have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for
quadrille paper" * Irish Examiner *
"Pynchon's masterpiece." -- John Sutherland * Guardian *
"Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento
mori." -- John Sutherland * The Times *
"I read this at 19 or so and just thought, like, f*ck, wow: this is
the marker, the pace-setter for the contemporary novel" -- Tom
McCarthy, author of 'C'
"Thomas Pynchon, the greatest, wildest and most infuriating author
of his generation." -- Ian Rankin * Guardian *
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