Against the Day
ABOUT
THE BOOK
The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as “a major work of art” by The Wall Street Journal, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters and a kaleidoscopic plot, Against the Day confronts a world of impending disaster, unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places and still manages to be hilarious, moving, profound, and so much more.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
This wild mixture of the fantastic and the factual spans the history of the United States from the Chicago World Fair of 1893 through the 1920s.
The new monumental novel an outstanding American Novelist analysing the solitude and loveliness of contemporary human kind, the leading figure of the transatlantic avant garde.
Imaginative, original, unforeseeable novel that has a huge scope and therefore demands that the reader give it his time.
Exceptional epic novel mixing the multiple places and multiple time periods effectively. Includes aspects of multiple genres including historical, science fiction, fantasy, suspense and humour