V.

Pynchon, Thomas

Verlag: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966

Beschreibung

Pynchon, Thomas. V. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966. Scarce first Penguin edition. Paperback, Good to Fair. Covers rubbed along edges with moderate shelfwear and numerous creases to front, rear and spine. A little damage to base of spine. Binding good, just starting to weaken at front inside hinge. Small 1966 date stamp to fep. Mild dog-earing to first few pages, bottom corner. 485pp. Light tanning to edges of page block; contents clean anad bright. V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V." It was nominated for a National Book Award. Time wrote "In this sort of book, there is no total to arrive at. Nothing makes any waking sense. But it makes a powerful, deeply disturbing dream sense. Nothing in the book seems to have been thrown in arbitrarily, merely to confuse, as is the case when inept authors work at illusion. Pynchon appears to be indulging in the fine, pre-Freudian luxury of dreams dreamt for the dreaming. The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. What does it mean? Who, finally, is V.? Few books haunt the waking or the sleeping mind, but this is one. Who, indeed?" RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1688805279779

Bibliografische Details

Titel: V.

Verlag: Harmondsworth: Penguin

Erscheinungsdatum: 1966

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Fair