Gravity`s Rainbow, Pynchon Thomas

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Mason & Dixon
ISBN: 0312423209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312423209
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 22800 T
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Описание: Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.
Thomas Pynchon is the author of "V.," "The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner" (a collection of stories), and "Vineland." He received the National Book Award for "Gravity's Rainbow "in 1974. He lives in New York.
A "New York Times" Best Book of the Year
A "Time" Magazine Best Book of the Year
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as told by the celebrated contemporary novelist Thomas Pynchon, in an updated 18th-century saga featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies both erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse.
Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason and Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America, and back to England; into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives; through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, and tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost.
Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese "feng shui" master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, wholly mismatched pair--Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic--pursue a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing (and managing to participate in) the many and varied occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason.
"A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring . . . A book that testifies to Pynchon's powers of invention and his sheer power as a storyteller."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"A dazzling work of imaginative re-creation, a marvel-filled historical novel . . . Exceptionally funny."--Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post Book World "
"The style is playful, a pastiche redolent of the musty journal and the capitalomania of the day, bumptiously Fieldingesque, and yet as pumped-up and heightened and chock-full of late-20th-century references as the dernier cri from the street. It is wonderfully subversive. In fact, almost all the book's humor is balanced on the razor edge of anachronism, creating a rich stew of accepted and invented history, anecdote, myth and hyperbole. There are precedents here--John Barth, Robert Coover, Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, E.L. Doctorow and, of course, the Thomas Pynchon of "Gravity's Rainbow" and "V.""--T. Coraghessan Boyle, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Pynchon always has been wildly inventive, and gorgeously funny when he surpasses himself: the marvels of this book are extravagant and unexpected."--Harold Bloom, " Bostonia "
"It is the vision itself that one takes away from this remarkable book: a wilderness America, peopled as much by European hopes and longin

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: V.
ISBN: 0060930217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060930219
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 14440 T
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Описание: The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Crying of Lot 49. The
ISBN: 0099532611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099532613
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 9370 T
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Описание: Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover`s estate.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Slow learner
ISBN: 0099532514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099532514
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 10410 T
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Описание: A compilation of five short stories which include: "The Small Rain", "Lowlands", "Entropy", "Under the Rose", and "The Secret Integration".

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Vineland
ISBN: 0749391413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749391416
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 11450 T
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Описание: Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Against the Day
ISBN: 159420120X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594201202
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 26610 T
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Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Inherent Vice HB
ISBN: 022408948X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780224089487
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 18800 T
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Описание: Private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L A fog. It`s been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Crying of Lot 49, The
ISBN: 0061849928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061849923
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Цена: 7600 T
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Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Against the day
ISBN: 0224080954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780224080958
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 19800 T
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Описание: Spanning the period between the Chicago World`s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this work moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, and Mexico during the revolution.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: V
ISBN: 0099533316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099533313
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 10410 T
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Описание: The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. as become a modern classic. This is the first novel by the author of Gravity`s Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Gravity`s Rainbow (re-issue)
ISBN: 0099511754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099511755
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 11450 T
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Описание: We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn`t really begin to cover it.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Inherent vice
ISBN: 0099542161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099542162
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 10410 T
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Описание: It`s been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Against the Day
ISBN: 0099512335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099512332
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 14840 T
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Описание: 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; Maybe it`s not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it`s what the world might be.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Bleeding Edge
ISBN: 0099590360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099590361
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 9890 T
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Описание: Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her licence got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics.

Автор: Pynchon Thomas
Название: Crying of Lot 49, The
ISBN: 006091307X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060913076
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 11400 T
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"A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." --San Francisco Examiner

The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy.

When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.