Against the Day

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' A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar. . . . Buy Against the Day."
—THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at a\\), AGAINST THE DAY unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloon-ists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
"[.Pynchon's]funniest and arguably his most accessible növel. . . With Against the Day,... Tovább

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' A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar. . . . Buy Against the Day."
—THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at a\\), AGAINST THE DAY unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloon-ists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
"[.Pynchon's]funniest and arguably his most accessible növel. . . With Against the Day, Pynchonproves himself the heir to [Conrad and Wells], and a matchless fantasist of the reál." —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Against the Day is a major work of art and, like all creations ofsurpassing greatness, somethingto be studied." —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
"Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling." "Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant."
—THE BOSTON GLOBE
—USA TODAY
"Those who climb aboard Pynchon's airship will have the ride of their lives. History lesson, mystical quest, utópián dream, experimentál metafiction, Magast melodrama, Marxian comedy—Agfú-nst t-he cDay is' ftlfof Wese thing^nd: mot^fQ
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