Inherent Vice (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

Inherent Vice (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

'The funniest book Pynchon has written.' -- Rolling Stone 'Entertainment of a high order.' - Time Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working

Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Inherent Vice (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia

Vineland (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ('Floozy with an Uzi'), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in

Bleeding Edge (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

'Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best.' - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post 'Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous.' - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review It is

Vineland (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran

V. (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. as become a modern classic. This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own

Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Gravity's Rainbow is never a single story, but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our

V. (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

'This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century.' --Atlantic ReviewAcclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and 'V.,' the unknown woman of the

Bleeding Edge (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her licence got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow

Mason & Dixon (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier

Mason & Dixon (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon

The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

'A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.' --San Francisco ExaminerThe Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy.When her

Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text (Rolls Albert)(Paperback)

This is a significant new and accessible work on the leading modern American novelist whose works - notably Gravity's Rainbow, which won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction - remain mysterious to many, just as his life remains

Slow Learner - Early Stories (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

A compilation of five short stories which include: 'The Small Rain', 'Lowlands', 'Entropy', 'Under the Rose', and 'The Secret

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon (Dalsgaard Inger H.)(Paperback)

The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches

Against the Day (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might

Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover

Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Pynchon Thomas)(Paperback)

A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of

Výkřik techniky - Thomas Pynchon

Je jaro roku 2001, v New Yorku rozkvétají hrušně a Maxine Tarnowová, forenzní auditorka, vede své dva syny do školy. Když dorazí do kanceláře, čeká tam na ni kamarád Reg se záhadným případem – je něco shnilého v internetové firmě hashslingrz. Jakmile začne Maxine

The Leftovers (Perrotta Tom)(Paperback)

With heart, intelligence and a rare ability to illuminate the struggles inherent in ordinary lives, Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers--now adapted into an HBO series--is a startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection and loss. What if--whoosh, right now, with no explanation--a number of us

Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1887 Reprint (Thomas Jerry)(Paperback)

Howards End (Forster E. M.)(Paperback)

E. M. Forster's meticulously observed drama of class warfare exploring the conflict inherent within English society--the inspiration for the award-winning two-part play The Inheritance, now on Broadway'Only connect...' A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family

How to Connect (Nhat Hanh Thich)(Paperback)

We can restore our inherent connection to nature, each other, our ancestors, and ourselves, and remember our fundamental gift of belonging. The eighth book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces