A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
The best American novel I have read since the war
For the reader who has yet to make acquaintance with this important
comic talent. . . an appropriate introduction...defiantly,
purposefully outrageous
*Spectator*
The Crying of Lot 49 contains some of the most elegiac writing
about America since Fitzgerald, as well as packing an intense
metaphorical punch about revelation, hierophany, meaning and
connection that is far too complex to reduce to precis
*Observer*
The narrator sounds like a survivor looking through the massed
wreckage of his civilization, 'a salad of despair'. That image, to
suggest but one of the puns in the word Tristero, is typically full
of sadness, terror, love, and flamboyance. But then, how else
should one imagine a tryst with America? And that is what this
novel is.
*New York Times*
A book of thundering originality and depth and lyricism, a book
with the highest intellectual aspirations - and yet it also seemed
to be concerned with creating genuine suspense
*Independent*
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