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V.
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Author: Thomas Pynchon
Who was V.? Was she Victoria, the high priced courtesan? Was she Hedwig, the sicteen year old girl with hip length, blond hair, whose only purpose in life was to tantalize and ravish the whole race of man? Was she Melanie"s notorious lover? Was she Herbert Stencil's long lost mother? What strange part did she play in the lives of Benny Prof...  more »
ISBN: 194177
Publication Date: 3/1963
Pages: 463
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Publisher: Bantam Books
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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