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Against the Day (Audio)

By: Thomas Pynchon (Author) and Dick Hill (Narrator)


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"[A] grand, unruly novel...an occasion of joy in every nook of American culture except The New Republic."

"Pynchon remains the archpoet of death from above, comedy from below, and sex from all sides....[T]hat rushing you hear is the sound of the world, every banana peel and dynamite stick of it, trying to crowd its way in, and succeeding." (starred review)

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After an absence of almost a decade, Thomas Pynchon returns with a pyrotechnic blast of a novel--by turns comic, absurdist, philosophical, cerebral, experimental, fantastical, and psychologically powerful. The adventures of a group of late-19th-century balloonists serve as the thematic springboard behind the lives of an assortment of eccentric thinkers and radicals during the early part of the 20th century. At the center of the story is the anarchist Webb Traverse and his brilliant and bizarre children. After a visitor from the future warns them of World War I, the ghastly specter of global catastrophe hangs over all their actions. This massive opus--over 1000 pages long--leaps from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to the Mexican Revolution to postwar Paris, and is populated with Pynchon's unforgettable characters, including cameos by Bela Lugosi and Groucho Marx. Though the literary gymnastics can be dizzying at times, Pynchon shows that his mind is as limber and gravity-defying as ever.



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