Thomas Pynchon

Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, is under suspicion by his superiors and soon on the run from enemies through Germany.

Gravity's Rainbow

The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)

When Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization

The Crying of Lot 49

Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.

Inherent Vice

V. est une lettre mystérieuse qui apparaît ici et là dans le journal intime laissé par Stanley Stencil, disparu en 1919. En 1945, son fils Herbert va chercher ce qui se cache derrière cette initiale. Très vite, V. va se révéler être une énigme aux nombreuses significations, une figure féminine aux multiples visages - Victoria, une anglaise violée au Caire ; Véra, une danseuse allemande pré-nazie dans le Sud-Ouest africain ; Véronique, un rat femelle des égouts de New York ; ou encore une lesbienne du boulevard de Clichy - mais aussi un pays appelé Vheissu, qui inquiète beaucoup les services secrets... Premier roman de Thomas Pynchon, récit extravagant, débridé, à l'imagination débordante, V a connu un succès immédiat dès sa parution au début des années 60 et a placé son auteur parmi les très grands de la littérature américaine contemporaine.

roman

The re-imagined story of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the British surveyors best known for marking the Mason-Dixon line, features the mismatched pair as they are drawn into naval warfare, erotic and political conspiracies, and major caffeine abuse as they negotiate the perils of eighteenth-century America. Reprint

A Novel

Mason & Dixon

An average mother of two working in investigation fraud gets drawn into a shady and eccentric underworld after looking into the finances of a billionaire computer geek in this new novel from the author of V and Gravity's Rainbow.

Bleeding Edge

Against the Day

Roman

Vineland

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing. The collection consists of five short stories- 'The Small Rain', 'Lowlands', 'Entropy', 'Under the Rose', and 'The Secret Integration', as well as an introduction written by Pynchon himself for the 1984 publication. The five stories were originally published individually in various literary magazines but in 1984, after Pynchon had achieved greater recognition, Slow Learner was published to collect and copyright the stories into one volume. The introduction also offers a rare insight into Pynchon's own views on his work and influences.

Early Stories

Slow Learner

O Leilão do Lote 49

The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, bestselling and award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice. “A masterpiece.” —The Telegraph “Bonkers and brilliant fun.” —The Washington Post “Late Pynchon at his finest. Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance — and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” —Los Angeles Times Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

Shadow Ticket

Amerikanischer Autor, geb. 1937. - Das Leben als Parabel. Parabelförmig ist die Flugbahn zwischen zwei Punkten, ist die Flugbahn der deutschen V-Waffen im Zweiten Weltkrieg, deren Entwicklung und Einsatz nur einen der zahllosen Handlungsstränge dieses Pandämoniums darstellen. Die Rakete als Sinnbild besiegter Schwerkraft, aber auch hybrider Männlichkeit mit ihren katastrophalen Auswirkungen, lenkt den Blick des Lesers durch eine unabsehbare Fülle von Ereignissen

Die Enden der Parabel

Vizio di forma

L'incanto del lotto 49

L'arcobaleno della gravità

The Secret Integration

Paulo Henriques Britto

Obra-prima de Thomas Pynchon (que não se deixa fotografar nem dá entrevista), O arco-íris da gravidade foi desde o seu lançamento (1973) saudado como uma das maiores realizações da ficção em língua inglesa de nossos tempos. É Uma narrativa picaresca, ambientada na Europa devastada do final da Segunda Guerra e nos primeiros momentos do pós-guerra. A Linguagem e a técnica narrativa evocam o clima da contracultura norte-americana dos anos 60 e 70 - drogas, rebelião, oposição à guerra do Vietnã. O Estilo caracteriza-se pelo uso das mais variadas técnicas da cultura de massas - o desenho animado, o filme B, a história em quadrinhos, o livro pornográfico - e aproveita o jargão científico e tecnológico com que os meios de comunicação nos familiarizam cada vez mais. NArrativa pós-modernista que proporciona o prazer da imersão total num universo completo, tal como os grandes romances clássicos, O arco-íris da gravidade é uma das maiores obras de ficção em língua inglesa da segunda metade de nosso século.

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