| Against the Day Contributor(s): Pynchon, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143112562 ISBN-13: 9780143112563 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Spanning the period between the Chicago Worlds 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Alternative History |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (1.85 lbs) 1104 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." --The New York Times Book Review "Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant." --USA Today "Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling." --The Boston Globe 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 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. |