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Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

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Anarchic journey through a parallel historical reality.

If you've got an appetite for the unconventional, "Against the Day" might just be your literary feast. Pynchon's narrative is a kaleidoscope of genre-blurring storytelling, peppered with quirky characters and surreal adventures that challenge the norms of time and space. It's a book where you'll find the pleasure lies in the journey itself, arduous and labyrinthine, rewarding readers with a taste for complexity and intellectual stimulation.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2007)
  • Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ for Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία (2010)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Against the Day

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ISBN: 9780224080958
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Date of Publication: 2006-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Literature, Speculative Fiction
Goodreads rating: 4.04
(rated by 9892 readers)

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Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War One, 'Against the Day' moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.
 

Anarchic journey through a parallel historical reality.

If you've got an appetite for the unconventional, "Against the Day" might just be your literary feast. Pynchon's narrative is a kaleidoscope of genre-blurring storytelling, peppered with quirky characters and surreal adventures that challenge the norms of time and space. It's a book where you'll find the pleasure lies in the journey itself, arduous and labyrinthine, rewarding readers with a taste for complexity and intellectual stimulation.

  • Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2007)
  • Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ for Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία (2010)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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