Thomas Pynchon






Thomas Pynchon

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born
May 08, 1937

gender
male

place of birth
Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, The United States

genre
Literature & Fiction


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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006).

Pynchon is regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Pr...more




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The Crying of Lot 49 The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 3.76 — 7,365 ratings — published 1966
34 editions
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Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 4.10 — 3,152 ratings — published 1973
27 editions
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V. V.
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 4.02 — 1,814 ratings — published 1963
29 editions
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Vineland Vineland
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 3.61 — 1,423 ratings — published 1990
15 editions
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Mason & Dixon Mason & Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 3.93 — 1,137 ratings — published 1997
15 editions
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Inherent Vice Inherent Vice
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 3.73 — 575 ratings — published 2009
5 editions
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Slow Learner Slow Learner
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 3.46 — 616 ratings — published 1984
14 editions
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The Secret Integration The Secret Integration
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 1964
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V/Crying of Lot 49/Gravity's R... V/Crying of Lot 49/Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 1993
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Mortality and Mercy in Vienna Mortality and Mercy in Vienna
by Thomas Pynchon
avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 1976
2 editions
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"They're in love. Fuck the war."
Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)
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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)
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"I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the cunningly detailed shackles of decadent passion. I am every lonely railway station in every capital of Europe. I am the Street, the fanciless buildings of government. the cafe-dansant, the clockwork figure, the jazz saxophone, the tourist-lady's hairpiece, the fairy's rubber breasts, the travelling clock which always tells the wrong time and chimes in different keys. I am the dead palm tree, the Negro's dancing pumps, the dried fountain after tourist season. I am all the appurtenances of night."
Thomas Pynchon (V.)
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