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Vineland è un'immaginaria cittadina della California. Qui, nel 1984, vive Zoyd Wheeler, un hippy degli anni Sessanta, che una volta all'anno si butta attraverso una vetrina... Frenesi, sua moglie, bellissima ex attrice underground, scompare nel nulla... Prairie, sua figlia, è un'adolescente eccentrica e sexy... Intorno a loro un universo improbabile ma reale in cui si muovono figli dei fiori (violenti e no) e agenti dell'FBI (sempre violenti e...

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The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as "a major work of art" by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters and a kaleidoscopic plot, Against the Day confronts a world of impen...

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the o...

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Esto es verdad, esto es Historia: Charles Mason (1728-1786) y Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1799) fueron un melancólico astrónomo y un exultante topógrafo británicos, a sueldo de la Royal Society, responsables del trazado de la línea que separaba los estados (entonces colonias) de Pennsylvania y Maryland, conocida aún hoy como la Línea Mason-Dixon, que -involuntariamente- acabó demarcando el límite infame entre feudos esclavistas y territorios libres d...

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A Penguin ClassicWinner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller alon...

Pynchon's "V". won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation's First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by "Atlantic Review" as "one of the best works of the century".

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

For use in schools and libraries only. When Oedipa Maas is named the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization

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Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing.

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