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Pynchon Thomas:     more books (102)

Inherent Vice: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon, 2010-07-27 V. (Perennial Classics) by Thomas Pynchon, 1999-04-01 Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, 2007-10-30 Slow Learner: Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon, 1985-04-30 Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon, 2006-10-31 The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon, 2006-11-07 Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon, 2004-01-03 The Small Rain by Thomas Pynchon, 1982-01 Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith, 2006-12-30 A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel by Steven C. Weisenburger, 2006-11-01 Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon by W.M. Plater, 1978-09 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Twentieth-Century Classics) by Richard Farina, 1996-05-01 Thomas Pynchon (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Entropy by Thomas PYNCHON, 1983

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1. Thomas Pynchon - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Relatively little is known about Thomas Pynchon s private life; he has carefully avoided contact with journalists for more than forty years.  
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   Extractions: Glen Cove New York Occupation ... Short story writer and novelist Nationality American Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8 ) 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. The Crying of Lot 49 Gravity's Rainbow Vineland (1997), and Against the Day Pynchon ( pronounced /ˈpɪntʃɒn/ , with /ˈpɪntʃən/ a common mispronunciation) 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 Prize in Literature . Both his fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, styles and themes , including (but not limited to) the fields of history science and mathematics . Pynchon is also known for his avoidance of personal publicity : very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumors about his location and

2. CNN - Where's Thomas Pynchon? - June 5, 1997
   NEW YORK (CNN) Thomas Pynchon is an enigma shrouded in a mystery veiled Heroes of Cyberspace Thomas pynchon thomas Pynchon Creator of the internet?  
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   Extractions: Web posted at: 10:35 p.m. EDT (0235 GMT) NEW YORK (CNN) Thomas Pynchon is an enigma shrouded in a mystery veiled in anonymity. Yet, you won't see Pynchon hawking his wares on Oprah's book club. You won't find him signing his name for fans down at the corner bookstore. He so shuns publicity that he doesn't allow his likeness to be used on book jackets. All known photographs of the man date to the early 1950s. Until Nancy Jo Sales of New York Magazine tracked him down last year, no reporter had interviewed him in four decades. When a CNN camera crew caught up with Pynchon in Manhattan recently, he phoned back to strongly request that he not be pointed out to viewers in any videotape (a request which, after much debate, CNN opted to honor). "Let me be unambiguous," he said. "I prefer not to be photographed." Pynchon's oh-so-low profile has earned him the sobriquet as the Greta Garbo of American letters. VXtreme streaming video as seen in Charles Feldman's report on CNN Some of his fans wonder if he really exists or might really be several people writing under a pseudonym. He's a popular topic in cyberspace and, until the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, was even supposed by some to be the elusive Unabomber.

3. Thomas Pynchon - Wikiquote
   Pynchon s response to Jules Siegel about the complexity of V, as quoted in Who Is Thomas Pynchon And Why Did He Take Off With My Wife?  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Why should things be easy to understand? Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born 8 May ) is an American writer based in New York City. When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, "Southern California's special horror notwithstanding, if the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault." I wrote that in the first few shook-up minutes after hearing the bulletin sandwiched in between Don and Phil Everly and surrounded by all manner of whoops and whistles coming out of an audio signal generator, like you are apt to hear on the provincial radio these days. But I don't think I'd take those words back. Our souls it leaves to whatever obsolescenses, bigotries, theories of education workable and un, parental wisdom or lack of it, happen to get in its more or less Brownian (your phrase) pilgrimage between the cord-cutting ceremony and the time they slide you down the chute into the oven, while the guy on the Wurlitzer plays

4. Literary Encyclopedia: Thomas Pynchon
   Thomas Pynchon is one of the most important postmodern writers, and his Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) is – arguably – the essential postmodern novel.  
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5. Thomas Pynchon - Wikipedia
   Translate this page Als V. 1963 erschien, brachte der Roman Thomas Pynchon, der bis dahin durch eine Reihe von Kurzgeschichten auf sich aufmerksam gemacht hatte,  
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   Extractions: Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Thomas Pynchon (um 1957) Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. 8. Mai in Glen Cove auf Long Island New York ) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und bedeutender Vertreter der literarischen Postmoderne Pynchon entstammt einer alten neuenglischen Familie; ihr Name taucht beispielsweise in Nathaniel Hawthornes Roman "Das Haus der sieben Giebel" (1851) als Pyncheon auf. Wie Hawthorne besch¤ftigte sich auch Pynchon in seinem Werk oft mit seinen puritanischen Vorfahren. Sein direkter Vorfahr William Pynchon z¤hlte 1630 zu den Gr¼ndern der Kolonie Massachusetts . 1650 ver¶ffentlichte dieser in London das Traktat "The Meritorious Price of our Redemption" , in dem er die calvinistische Pr¤destinationslehre in Frage stellte. Bei seiner R¼ckkehr nach Boston wurde er daher der H¤resie bezichtigt; seine Schrift ist eines der ersten B¼cher, die auf amerikanischem Boden verboten und ¶ffentlich verbrannt wurden. Thomas Pynchon verarbeitete diese Begebenheit 1973 in seinem Hauptwerk "Die Enden der Parabel". Pynchon wurde 1937 in Glen Cove auf Long Island als Sohn von Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr., und Katherine Frances Bennett Pynchon geboren. Nach Abschluss der Oyster Bay High School im Jahre 1953 studierte er zun¤chst Physik, sp¤ter englische Literatur an der

6. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Thomas Pynchon
   Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. was born on May 8, 1937 in Glen Cove, New York and grew up in the middleclass suburbs of Long Island. Pynchon attended Oyster  
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   Extractions: Help Search: Pynchon began writing stories during his time at Cornell. In addition, he worked on a campus literary journal with friend, Richard Fari?a. Fari?a would later write about Pynchon in his series of reminiscences, entitled Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone. In turn, Pynchon would comment on the dust jackets of Fari?a's novels, exulting their shared ability to "spin the reader." Before this time came, however, Pynchon refused several fellowships in 1958, such as the Wilson Fellowship, and he turned down opportunities to teach creative writing for Cornell and to fill an editorial post for Esquire. Instead, Pynchon chose to live in Greenwich Village and focus on his writing. In 1959, Pynchon's first two short stories, which he had begun at Cornell, were published. "The Small Rain" was published in March, 1959 in the Cornell Writer and "Morality and Mercy in Vienna" was published soon after in Epoch. A year later, in 1963, V. was published and received instant critical acclaim. At the age of twenty-six, Pynchon was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year. Little is known of his activity, beyond literary activity, after this point. In December of 1964, Pynchon's story, "The Secret Integration," was published in the Saturday Evening Post. A year later, Esquire published a portion of

7. Paper Pynchon
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8. Thomas Pynchon --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on Thomas Pynchon American novelist and shortstory writer whose works combine black humour and fantasy to depict  
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   Extractions: Commonly Asked Questions About Thomas Pynchon Close Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Thomas Pynchon , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership. Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content. For more details about this feature, visit our Webmaster and Blogger Tools page Copy and paste this code into your page

9. Literary Kicks Thomas Pynchon
   Thomas Pynchon maintains such a low profile as to make J. D. Salinger seem like an extrovert. But, unlike Salinger, Pynchon has remained productive in his  
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10. Thomas Pynchon - Wikipedia
    Translate this page Het werk van Thomas Pynchon lokt zeer uiteenlopende reacties uit, misschien wel omdat het niet onder te brengen is in één categorie.  
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    Extractions: Ga naar: navigatie zoeken Foto van Pynchon op zijn legerpaspoort. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (geboren op 8 mei ) is een Amerikaanse auteur van encyclopedische romans . (De -o- in de laatste lettergreep wordt inderdaad als "o" uitgesproken, dus niet als een toonloze "e".) Het werk van Thomas Pynchon lokt zeer uiteenlopende reacties uit, misschien wel omdat het niet onder te brengen is in ©©n categorie. Zijn werk wordt in grote mate beheerst door ogenschijnlijke willekeur, waarbij de "hoge" cultuur vermengd wordt met de "lage": het verhaal, voor zover dat er is, wordt onderbroken door liedjes, scabreuze grappen, of complete korte verhalen. Van deze auteur moet je geenszins een rechtlijnig, duidelijk en eenduidig verhaal verwachten. Regelmatig valt de vergelijking met James Joyce , ook al is het taalgebruik volkomen anders. Het academisch tijdschrift Pynchon Notes is sinds 1979 alleen aan hem gewijd. Het allereerste boek dat in de (latere) Verenigde Staten werd verbrand, was van de hand van een voorvader van Thomas Pynchon

11. Metroactive Books | Thomas Pynchon
    THOMAS PYNCHON is a valueadded writer who may add more value than any other writer alive. In novels like V. and The Crying of Lot 49, he used varying  
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    Extractions: T HOMAS PYNCHON is a value-added writer who may add more value than any other writer alive. In novels like V. and The Crying of Lot 49 , he used varying densities of detail to describe conspiracies that may or may not have been real and in the process told readers about Malta, alligator hunting and a postal alternative hundreds of years older than email. Gravity's Rainbow was a massive, labyrinthine mess, leading the reader on with tangled knots of fact and speculation, hinting at forces more sinister than the rockets of Wernher von Braun, bigger than WWII, more pervasive than General Electric. These books charged at the reader with buckets of secret knowledgea literary "hard sell." In 1989, though, Vineland softened the strategy. Some fans thought things got a little too soft. The story seemed to come from an author resting on his laurels, or maybe his floralsthe California-based characters smoked a lot of grass. It was Pynchon's first novel since Gravity's Rainbow , and its lightness after 17 years caused widespread disappointment.

12. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Character From A Thomas Pynchon Novel Or Someone
    Thomas Pynchon Novel or Someone Who Recently Sent Me Spam? BY MATT BARNHART. - - -. 1. Grandmother M. Mather 2. Esteban Stout 3. Ronald Cherrycoke  
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13. Thomas Pynchon - Wikipedia, Den Fria Encyklopedin
    Pynchon föddes på Long Island och efter två år i amerikanska flottan avlade han examen i engelska vid Cornelluniversitet. Efter att ha fått flera noveller  
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    Extractions: Hoppa till: navigering s¶k Thomas Pynchon. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. , f¶dd 8 maj , amerikansk f¶rfattare med bas i New York Han har uppm¤rksammats f¶r sina djupa och komplexa litter¤ra verk. Pynchon f¶ddes p¥ Long Island och efter tv¥ ¥r i amerikanska flottan avlade han examen i engelska vid Cornelluniversitet . Efter att ha f¥tt flera noveller publicerade kring 1960 p¥b¶rjade han arbetet med de romaner han ¤r mest k¤nd f¶r idag; V. Buden p¥ nummer 49 Gravitationens regnb¥ge och Vineland . En ny novell med den engelska titeln Against the Day planeras att publiceras i november 2006. Pynchon har mottagit National Book Award och n¤mns ofta som en kandidat till Nobelpriset i litteratur . Hans verk omfattar olika litter¤ra genrer och s¥ olika ¤mnen som historia vetenskap och matematik . Pynchon ¤r k¤nd f¶r att undvika personlig publicitet och f¥ fotografier p¥ honom har publicerats. G¤stspelade i ett avsnitt av TV-serien The Simpsons och tecknades d¥ med en p¥se ¶ver huvudet.

14. Thomas Pynchon - Britannica Concise
    Pynchon, Thomas American novelist and short-story writer whose works combine black humour and fantasy to depict human alienation in the chaos of modern  
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    Extractions: Print Article Email Article Cite Article U.S. writer. He studied physics at Cornell University and worked briefly as a technical writer before devoting himself to fiction. Beginning with his first novel, V. (1963), a complex, cynically absurd tale that juxtaposes scenes of 1950s hipster life with symbolic images of the entire century, his works have combined black humour and fantasy to depict human alienation in the chaos of modern society. The idea of conspiracy is central to The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and to his masterpiece, Gravity's Rainbow (1973), an extraordinary novel about the end of World War II, full of paranoid fantasy, grotesque imagery, and esoteric scientific and anthropological material. Later works include the novels Vineland (1997), and Against the Day (2006) and the story collection Slow Learner (1984). He has lived in hiding or incognito for decades, refusing to grant interviews or be photographed. document.writeln(AAMB2);

15. Thomas Pynchon Criticism
    Gravity s Rainbow Thomas Pynchon. American novelist and short story writer. The following entry presents criticism on Pynchon s novel Gravity s Rainbow  
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    Extractions: utmSetVar('lit_all'); Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page American novelist and short story writer. The following entry presents criticism on Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973) through 2001. For further information on his life and complete works, see CLC, Volumes 2, 3, 6, 9, 11, 18, 33, 62, 72, and 123. Published in 1973, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is recognized as a classic of postmodern absurdism. Set during World War II in Western Europe, the sprawling narrative combines numerous plots and subplots that either directly or indirectly center on the construction of a secret rocket by Nazi Germany and the simultaneous Allied quest to prevent its deployment. Divided into four sections that progressively become more disorienting for both the characters and the readers alike, Gravity's Rainbow exploits the thermodynamic principle of entropy and the psychological concept of paranoia to reflect the so-called postwar “culture of death,” which the novel identifies with the proliferation of technology, bureaucracy, and violence in contemporary society. A metafictional text, the novel mirrors the chaos of the modern world through nonlinear, fragmented narration and by randomly weaving historical and scientific facts into the fantastic hallucinations that flit through the consciousnesses of the major and minor characters. In this way

16. Against The Day By Thomas Pynchon
    Thomas Pynchon is known for the brilliant and complex novels that he wrote in the 1960 s and 70 s V, The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity s Rainbow.  
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    Extractions: zOBT=" Ads" zGCID=" test1" zGCID=" test1 test5" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') z160=zpreC(160,600);z336=zpreC(336,280);z728=zpreC(728,90);z133=zpreC(336,133);zItw=160 var h2=document.getElementsByTagName("h2")[0];if(h2.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].firstChild.nodeValue.length>29)h2.className="long"; Home Entertainment Contemporary Literature Search over 1.4 million articles by over 600 experts Search h1 = document.getElementById("title").getElementsByTagName("h1")[0];h1.innerHTML = widont(h1.innerHTML); About.com Rating From Gregory Schneider , for About.com While he may not be giving interviews, while he still remains unphotographed, and while his most recent "outings" have been on two episodes of The Simpsons , Thomas Pynchon is back. And his new novel Against the Day (Penguin, $35) is everywhere. But who will read it? Not who will buy it, because it will be bought in truckloads (appropriately so, since you'll need a Dodge Ram just to transport it), and will easily muscle its way into the bestseller lists - in People magazine's holiday shopping guide the novel is grouped with the Squeezebox, The Office Season 2 DVD set, and Sony's PS3, as one of the gifts for "The Man in Your Life." The smartest novel in the room, the tome to warp your coffee-table, the 1,085 page block that gives you reader's wrist, the most fashionable doorstop in recent memory (move over sunstained copy of

17. Thomas R. Pynchon: Spermatikos Logos - Author Homepage
    Spermatikos Logos is a Web resource dedicated to exploring the work of thomas pynchon.  
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    Extractions: The Modern Word interviews Zak Smith Counting down to Against the Day The Illustrated Complete Summary of Was on display at the Smithsonian, Washington DC, in 2004. A Screaming Come Across the Sky Pynchon defends Ian McEwan Daily Telegraph , Pynchon adds his voice in support of McEwan against charges of plagiaraism. New Modern Word forum! The Fictional Woods New Pynchon Novel! Against the Day , a 1120 page epic set during the years between the Chicago World's Fair and WWI. Partial review here. Against the Day

18. Thomas Pynchon / HyperArts
    The largest and most extensive thomas pynchon website on the Internet. Exhaustive guides to Gravitys Rainbow, V., Mason Dixon, and more.  
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    Extractions: He's the guy who in 1974 accepted the National Book Award on behalf of Thomas Pynchon. Read his reminiscences... You can now register to be a contributor to any of the five Pynchon wikis: Against the Day Gravity's Rainbow The Crying of Lot 49 and V. . Check 'em out. It's available. Purchase from Amazon US or Amazon UK ; and then visit the Pynchon Wiki Zak Smith's amazing and lovely illustrations of every page of Gravity's Rainbow were published in book form on Nov 28, 2006. You can order it now. Or click for more info... As daunting as it may seem, we intend to have available at publication a full-blown wiki guide to Pynchon's new novel, allowing registered editors to amend, comment, pontificate, criticize and interpret this amazing new novel's vast subject matter and incredible array of characters historical, fictional and "otherwise." At launch, the wiki will have a fully indexed alphabetical guide to the characters, events and arcana of the novel. Take a look to the right....

19. Thomas Pynchon Wiki: Against The Day - Gravity's Rainbow - Mason & Dixon
    We currently have six wikis running here, covering all of thomas pynchon s novels Against the Day (2006), thomas pynchon s most recent novel; Mason Dixon  
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    Extractions: Order Against the Day We currently have six wikis running here, covering all of Thomas Pynchon's novels: Against the Day (2006), Thomas Pynchon's most recent novel; Vineland Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Pynchon's awe-inspiring third novel; The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Pynchon's second novel; and V. (1960) Pynchon's first novel. A wiki for Slow Learner and other stuff coming down the pike, so... Onward! Against the Day Wiki Wiki Vineland ... Wiki

20. Thomas Pynchon Biography
    thomas pynchon Biography what is known of the elusive author thomas pynchon, writer of Gravity s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, V., Vineland,  
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    Extractions: Who the hell is Thomas Pynchon? He's done his best to keep the world ignorant as to his face and his facts, but here and there things have slipped out, filtered through. We've attempted to compile as much as we could find out about the man, and brought our own speculations in as well. Pynchon himself, in the introduction to Slow Learner , says, "Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one's personal life had nothing to do with fiction, when the truth, as everyone knows, is nearly the direct opposite." Taking Pynchon at his word, we have noted resonaces between his works, philosophers and other authors, hoping to create an overall-though incomplete- profile of the man.

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