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Against the Day
Artikel-Nr:
9780099512332
Veröffentl:
2007
Einband:
B-format paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2007
Seiten:
1220
Autor:
Thomas Pynchon
Gewicht:
837 g
Format:
198x128x60 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
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; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.
It is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.
Ein opulentes Zeitporträt der Jahre zwischen 1893 und dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, das in Colorado, New York, London, Göttingen, Vendig, Wien und vielen anderen Orten spielt und bevölkert ist mit den unterschiedlichsten und bizzarsten Figuren, ganz so wie man es von Pynchon erwartet.