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ISBN: 159420120X

ISBN13: 9781594201202

Against the Day

By Jonathan B. Waugh and Vijay M. Deshpande

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Book Overview

"[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 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 all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:159420120X

ISBN13:9781594201202

Release Date:November 2006

Publisher:Penguin Press

Length:1120 Pages

Weight:3.38 lbs.

Dimensions:2.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Rated 5 stars
Don't Read it to Quickly!

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 5, 2007

It took me over a year to read this book, and as I skimmed through some of the more "professional" reviews of Against the Day, many of which appeared roughly a year ago or even earlier, I can't help but think, "Maybe they read it too fast?" For there is much that is infuriating about Against the Day. Primarily, it's the fact that at 1089 pages long, there is no way to minimize the effort required to read it. Second, the...

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Against the Odds, Pynchon pulls it off

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 2, 2007

I'll be the first one to admit that I'm a radical Pynchonophile. And I'll be the first to admit that Pynchon is not for everyone; reading his books requires patience, an eclectic sum of knowledge (or the willingness to browse through an encyclopedia), and the ability to, every so often, accept that you will never fully penetrate the mysteries that the author creates. Against the Day is no exception. Yet the Pynchon of Against...

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Ignore the early reviews

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 25, 2006

Opinions vary, but the numerous reviews that were produced at the time of this books release will likely be long forgotten by the time most folks actually make their way through this thing. One guesses that these reviewers must have felt pretty agitated being put in a position of having to rush through over a thousand pages of Pynchonian sophistication in the short time they had from receiving their pre-release copies to...

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Slow Down, Enjoy The Ride

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 24, 2006

The temptation with a huge novel like "Against The Day" is to read it at breakneck speed. Pynchon discourages readers from that option early, signalling within the first 60 pages that this is going to be a tale of many characters, many narrative lines, at times realistic, at others fantastic, often rooted in history, at other times unquestionably about the present. For such a mysterious writer, Pynchon's influences are well...

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Pynchon's Best Novel

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 23, 2006

This book represents the best of Mr. Pynchon's novels. I appreciated all of his works but here is the culmination of his art. As with Mr. Zimmerman's recent concert tour, we now have an artist of the 1960's, who has transcended his comfortable art form. Unlike V and Gravity's Rainbow, which exhausted us with genocide and holocaust, Against the Day not only suggests Tom Swift, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and Dickens but Cervantes...

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