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Pynchon to Publish First Novel in 12 Years on October 7
Pynchon's ninth novel, Shadow Ticket, finishes his 20th century literary chronicle with a detective story set in Depression-era Milwaukee and proto-fascist Budapest, praised for its unique style.
- With next week’s publication, Shadow Ticket is Thomas Pynchon’s ninth novel, out from Penguin Press, with midnight release parties scheduled for Oct. 6 at Elliott Bay Book Company and Third Place Books.
- Over decades, Thomas Pynchon has quietly assembled an almost decade-by-decade chronicle of the 20th century, starting with his 1963 novel V., making this release the capstone of that secret 20th century.
- Set in 1932, the story opens in Depression-era Milwaukee with detective Hicks McTaggart assigned by Unamalgamated Ops to chase runaway heiress Daphne Airmont before moving to proto-fascist Budapest.
- Reviewers praise Shadow Ticket as brilliant, prescient and full of joy, and at 88, Pynchon's intellect remains undiminished with hopes for more work.
- The novel raises questions about authoritarianism and freedom, with critics suggesting the 1930s setting reflects how the contemporary United States already feels too Pynchonian.
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In Paul Thomas Anderson's box-office-dominating Vineland riff and a new 1930s-set novel by the reclusive maestro himself, eccentric characters face down fascism on the rise.
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Review: Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Shadow Ticket’ is a 1930s detective tale with a sucker punch ending
Thomas Pynchon hasn’t lost a step with his 1930s tale about the misadventures of a Milwaukee cheese heiress and the detective that travels to proto-fascist Budapest to find her.
·Los Angeles, United States
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The Washington PostThomas Pynchon’s new detective novel is bonkers and brilliant fun
Sixty years ago, in his second novel, “The Crying of Lot 49,” Thomas Pynchon described a phenomenon that might double as an anticipatory description of his entire career. “Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this,” he wrote of that…
·New Hampshire, United States
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