Name: V.
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Author: Thomas Pynchon
ISBN: 9780060930219

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Pynchon

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.5 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN

0060930217

ISBN13

9780060930219

Edition No.

Synopsis "V."

"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." --Atlantic ReviewAcclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.Pynchon's debut novel follows discharged Navy sailor Benny Profane as he reconnects with an eclectic collection of artists in New York known as the "Whole Sick Crew" along with his sidekick Pig Bodine, and the plot of Herbert Stencil, looking to find the woman he knows only as she is described in his father's diary: "V."Brimming with madcap characters, the novel meanders from New York to Alexandria, Cairo, Paris, Florence, and Africa, and traverses generations. Time magazine raves, "Few books haunt the waking or the sleeping mind, but this is one."

Thomas Pynchon

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De él apenas se sabe que estudió ingeniería y literatura en la Universidad de Cornell, donde fue alumno de Vladimir Nabokov (aunque éste no recordara haberlo tenido en clase), que redactó folletos técnicos para la compañía aérea Boeing, que envió a un cómico a recoger el National Book Award y que vive en Nueva York. Tusquets Editores ha publicado la integridad de su obra de ficción.

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