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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop is an archetypal innocent abroad, but in the worst possible circumstances: he's an American on a mission to locate V-2 rocket-launching sites in war-torn Europe. On...... read more
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Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here...... read more
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The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
Oedipa Maas is made the executor of the estate of her late boyfriend Pierce Inverarity - - including his enormous stamp collection. As she carries out her duties, Oedipa meets some...... read more
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V
Thomas Pynchon
A complex novel of ideas in which Pynchon examines conflicting views on the meaning of History through his two main characters, Benny Profane and Herbert Stencil. For Profane (a self...... read more
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Vineland
Thomas Pynchon
Zoyd Wheeler collects mental disability checks from the state by jumping through plate-glass windows once a year. His former wife has run off with Brock Vond, a Federal Prosecutor...... read more
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Slow Learner
Thomas Pynchon
Five remarkable early stories, the first written in 1959, while Pynchon was a student at Cornell, the last in 1964, after the publication of V. Stories include "The Small Rain," "Lowlands,"...... read more
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Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon
An epic tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features a sizable cast of characters who are caught up by such events as the labor...... read more
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Deadly Sins
Thomas Pynchon
Seven writers choose a Deadly Sin and write about it; they include Thomas Pynchon (on sloth), Mary Gordon (anger), Gore Vidal (pride), John Updike (lust), William Trevor (gluttony)<...... read more
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