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Against the Day is a kind of inventory of the possibilities inherent in a particular moment in the history of the imagination. It is like a work of science fiction written in 1900.
- Thomas Pynchon
- 2006
Nov 21, 2006 · 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, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution ...
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Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians...
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- Thomas Pynchon
In a singularly disturbing imaginative leap, he seems to make a ghoulish association with the gas chambers of the Holocaust.
Jun 13, 2012 · Against the Day. Kindle Edition. by Thomas Pynchon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.5 440 ratings. See all formats and editions. “ [Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —The New York Times Book Review. “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —USA Today.
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Author Thomas Pynchon. Share Save. Add to Goodreads. “ [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.
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Jun 13, 2012 · Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking...
