Against the day
(Book)
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
Physical Desc
1085 pages ; 25 cm.
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Moab Library - Adult Fiction Book
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
Format
Book
Language
English
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9781594201202
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Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel 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, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx. As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pynchon, T. (2006). Against the day . Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pynchon, Thomas. 2006. Against the Day. Penguin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day Penguin Press, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day Penguin Press, 2006.
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