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Author: Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon's extraordinary first novel had an overwhelming impact on the literary scene and reverberations are still being felt. V is the story of a bawdy, sometimes macabre, always fascinating search for a mysterious woman. Ranging from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta, it is a brilliant collage - at once allegorical, picaresque, er...  more »
ISBN: 14816
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 463
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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I could not get into this. I respect Pynchon on so many levels, but The Crying of Lot 49, at about 100 pgs, is about all of him I can handle. Honestly, huge postmodern texts like this one tend to depress me.
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Among the list of recommended books mentioned in an appendix to Stephen King's 1981 treatise on horror 'Danse Macabre', I found the plot for 'V.' to be impenetrable. Definitely offbeat but too deep to follow.


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