Thomas Pynchon's novel, The Crying of Lot 49, is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political ...

Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow ... US fiction is read should read this ...

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The novel won him the 2016 National Book Award for fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Thomas Pynchon’s first ...

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The Book of Ayn captures the full spectrum of ... The shortest novel ever written by the legendarily long-winded Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 is a turbulent ride through the misadventures of ...