Against the Day is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 2006. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, Africa and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon. Like its predecessors, Against the Day is an example of historiographic metafiction or metahistorical romance. At 1,085 pages, it …
Against the Day
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Against the Day is an epic historical novel by Thomas Pynchon, published in 2006. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, Africa and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon. Like its predecessors, Against the Day is an example of historiographic metafiction or metahistorical romance. At 1,085 pages, it is the longest of Pynchon's novels to date.
Hardcover, 1085 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 2006 by The Penguin Press, Penguin Press.
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978-1-59420-120-2
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- OCLC Number:
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- Pynchon, Thomas - Prose & Criticism
- Fiction
- Fiction - General
- Historical - General
- Literary
- Fiction / Literary
- Disasters
- Experimental fiction
- Forecasting
- Psychological fiction