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Biographical note
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner and a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.A fine example of a successful marriage between the popular and intellectual, between fiction and science...<b> </b>gloriously, demandingly, daringly, Pynchon has rediscovered vulgarity and continues to prove the novel has never been more vibrant, more various or better able to represent our complex world. <b>Give this book your time - you'll agree its worth it</b>
- Michael Moorcock, Daily Telegraph
The greatest, wildest author of his generation
- Ian Rankin, Guardian
<i>Against the Day</i> is a rollercoaster ride that soars, plummets and often loops the loop.... A fantastic chronicle of how the world came into being... there is a beautifully humane, compassionate energy arcing through the book...Pynchon is the only living American author who unreservedly deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
It is a serious book and the finest thing Pynchon has done since <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>. It should be acknowledged, nonetheless that <i>Against The Day</i> is immensely funny, an intricate, wheezing shaggy dog joke holds you in its grip for a thousand pages. Quite a feat
- Tom Adair, Scotsman
It is brilliant...There's a wonderful gathering tenderness - and Pynchon writes some of the most beautiful sentences you are ever likely to come across
Spectator
Now aged 70 [Pynchon's] astonishing sense of place is undiminished...That such a heavy book should bear such a light-hearted message is one final irony - yet another example of Pynchon's wayward brilliance
- Mark Sanderson, Sunday Telegraph
Expertly spoofing Victorian pulp and western dime novels, as well as paying tribute to more contemporary genres..the tone is pitched a a generally jaunty angle to the apocalyptic subject matter, and whatever drawbacks of this it certainly keeps the book moving at a good clip
- James Lasdun, Guardian
Heart-stopping felicities of description lurk around every corner
- Tim Martin, Independent on Sunday
Pynchon can be totally maddening, but he has a great sense of mischief
- Douglas Kennedy, The Times
Clever and inventive in a mad professor kind of way...Intermittently warmed by paragraph-long sunbeams of iridescent prose-poetry
Economist