The first novel by the incomparable Thomas Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
A 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
*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*
Screwballs chase alligators in sewers in a chaotic and worlwide
chase for V., while literary styles, brilliant and bizarre, chase
each other
*Books and Bookmen*
The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. Few
books haunt the waking or sleeping mind, but this is one
*Time*
Mr Pynchon writes with enormous skill and virtuosity
*Times Literary Supplement.*
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