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Against the Day is a kind of inventory of the possibilities inherent in a particular moment in the history of the imagination. It is like a work of science fiction written in 1900.
- Thomas Pynchon
- 2006
Nov 21, 2006 · Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel 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 Tunguska Event, Mexico during the ...
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Sep 2, 2013 · Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, one of the art world's brightest stars, opened "Against the Day," a major installation of recent work at the Wiels Contemporary Arts Center in Brussels.
IN “Against the Day,” his sixth, his funniest and arguably his most accessible novel, Thomas Pynchon doles out plenty of vertigo, just as he has for more than 40 years.
Oct 30, 2007 · by Thomas Pynchon (Author) 4.5 443 ratings. See all formats and editions. “ [Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —The New York Times Book Review. “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —USA Today. “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.” —The Boston Globe.
Jul 16, 2012 · Against the day. by. Pynchon, Thomas. Publication date. 2007. Topics. Pynchon, Thomas - Prose & Criticism, Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction - Historical, Historical - General, Literary, Fiction / Literary, Disasters. Publisher. New York : Penguin Books.
Dec 10, 2006 · Against the Day. "It's always night, or we wouldn't need light." - Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the ...
