Imatge de l'autor

Thomas Pynchon

Autor/a de The Crying of Lot 49

31+ obres 45,001 Membres 679 Ressenyes 352 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York on May 8, 1937. In 1959 he graduated with a B.A. in English from Cornell, where he had taken Vladimir Nabokov's famous course in modern literature after studying engineering physics and serving in the U.S. Navy for two years. He worked as a technical mostra'n més writer at Boeing for two and a half years. Pynchon won the Faulkner First Novel Award for V. in 1963, and in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), again his symbolism and commentary on the United States and human isolation have been praised as intricate and masterly, though some reviewers found it to be maddeningly dense. With this book Pynchon won the Rosenthal Foundation Award. Gravity's Rainbow, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974, is in part a fictional elegy and meditation on death and an encyclopedic work that jumps through time. Pynchon has also written numerous essays, reviews, and introductions, plus the fictional works Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice. His title Bleeding Edge made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013. He is famous for his reclusive nature, although he has made several animated appearances on The Simpsons television series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Oyster Bay High School (Oyster Bay, NY)

Obres de Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) 10,971 exemplars
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) 10,691 exemplars
V. (1963) 5,165 exemplars
Mason & Dixon (1997) 4,596 exemplars
Vineland (1990) 4,076 exemplars
A contrallum (2006) 3,160 exemplars
Vici inherent (2009) 2,969 exemplars
Bleeding Edge (2013) 1,608 exemplars
Slow Learner (1984) 1,472 exemplars
Deadly Sins (1994) — Col·laborador — 83 exemplars
The secret integration (1980) 45 exemplars
Low-lands (1978) 41 exemplars
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna (1976) 37 exemplars
Entropy {story} (1960) 32 exemplars
The Small Rain (1982) 18 exemplars

Obres associades

1984 (1949) — Pròleg, algunes edicions81,469 exemplars
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,004 exemplars
Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Col·laborador — 277 exemplars
Inherent Vice [2014 film] (2014) — Original book — 94 exemplars
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (1975) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
Unknown California (1985) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1961 (1961) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Best modern short stories (1965) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
The Noble Savage 3 (1961) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Mondaugen — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Aerospace Safety (1960-12 - Vol 16 No 12) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Inherent Vice a Pynchon Pandæmonium (agost 2022)
Group Read, April 2019: Vineland a 1001 Books to read before you die (maig 2019)
The Crying of Lot 49 a Someone explain it to me... (març 2017)
Club Read 2013 : Kesbooks reading plan a Club Read 2013 (juny 2013)

Ressenyes

Thomas Pynchon does Neal Stephenson.
 
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dabacon | Hi ha 54 ressenyes més | Mar 14, 2024 |
A strange and gruesome tale of two men in pursuit of an unidentified object. The story of this difficult book is equally evasive. I delved into the story with reckless abandon, fearing that I might never come out.
 
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jwhenderson | Hi ha 35 ressenyes més | Feb 28, 2024 |
I will write a longer review later, but as a very general overview: some of Pynchon's novels may be 'better' or 'richer' in some measure of the word, but V is the most beautiful. It has the most heart.
 
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JasonMehmel | Hi ha 35 ressenyes més | Feb 9, 2024 |
This was a re-read for me; this book is consistently amazing. This time around I noticed a greater melancholy in the story, as though the conspiracy inside was both something desired (to make the world make sense) and something feared (because of a loss of control).
 
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JasonMehmel | Hi ha 193 ressenyes més | Feb 9, 2024 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
31
També de
17
Membres
45,001
Popularitat
#364
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
679
ISBN
411
Llengües
27
Preferit
352

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