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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Spanning the period between the Chicago World
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day 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 Tungus ...Show more
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around ...Show more
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagori ...Show more
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
59.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This title is describes as part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon. Private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfr ...Show more
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowh ...Show more
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
27.95 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuri ...Show more
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
19.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, "The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd i ...Show more
V by Thomas Pynchon
27.95 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious, V. as become a modern classic. This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profound ...Show more
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