Against the Day - by Thomas Pynchon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel 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, and elsewhere.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/><b>"Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant." --<i>USA Today</i></b> <p/><b>"Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling." --<i>The Boston Globe</i></b> <p/>The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as a major work of art by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, 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, <i>Against the Day</i> confronts a world of impending disaster, unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places and still manages to be hilarious, moving, profound, and so much more.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." --<i><b>The New York Times Book Review</b></i> <p/>"Those who climb aboard Pynchon's airship will have the ride of their lives. History lesson, mystical quest, utopian dream, experimental metafiction, Marxist melodrama, Marxian comedy--<i>Against the Day</i> is all of these things and more." --<i><b>The Washington Post Book World</b></i> <p/>"Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant." --<i><b>USA Today</b></i> <p/>"Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling." --<i><b>The Boston Globe</b></i> <p/>"Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar." --<i><b>The Philadelphia Inquirer</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Thomas Pynchon is the author of <i>V.</i>, <i>The Crying of Lot 49</i>, <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>, <i>Slow Learner</i>, a collection of short stories, <i>Vineland</i>, <i>Mason and Dixon</i> and, most recently, <i>Against the Day</i>. He received the National Book Award for <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> in 1974.
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