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Against the Day Hardcover - 2006
by Pynchon, Thomas
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Details
- Title Against the Day
- Author Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 1120
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Press, New York
- Date November 21, 2006
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4J2HM0006CK4
- ISBN 9781594201202 / 159420120X
- Weight 3.32 lbs (1.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.42 x 2.11 in (24.23 x 16.31 x 5.36 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Experimental fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006050714
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
-Thomas Pynchon