Thomas Pynchon, Author . Penguin Press $27.95 (380p) ISBN 978-1-59420-224-7
Pynchon sets his new novel in and around Gordita Beach, a mythical surfside paradise named for all the things his PI hero, Larry “Doc” Sportello, loves best: nonnutritious foods, healthy babies, curvaceous femme fatales. We’re in...
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Thomas Pynchon, Author , read by Ron McLarty. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314476-2
Pynchon's deceptively lighthearted stab at detective fiction is a lazy jog through the brambles of stoned late '60s Southern California, with a half-cocked private eye named Doc Sportello, who specializes more in meandering than actual...
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Thomas Pynchon, Author Henry Holt & Co Inc $27.5 (784p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3758-6
Reputedly two decades in the works, this masterful, polymathic saga begins in the stars and ends at home, in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. Through the after-dinner reminiscences of a charming, self-appointed and unreliable Boswell, the...
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Thomas Pynchon, Author Penguin Books $11.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-14-014511-3
Set in Northern California in 1984 and peopled with quirky characters, Pynchon's latest is a series of brilliant set pieces eventually overwhelmed by its own frenzied exuberance. 200,000 first printing. (Feb.)
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Thomas Pynchon. Penguin Press, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-59420-423-4
Reviewed by David Kipen. Published 50 years ago by long-gone J.B. Lippincott & Co., Thomas Pynchon's V. wasn't just the best first novel ever, it was a blueprint for his entire career. Much as that book yoyo-ed between an international femme fatale...
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Thomas Pynchon, read by Jeannie Berlin. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 17 CDs, 18.5 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-233-4
Pynchon’s new novel captures the time after the dotcom bubble burst and before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Maxine Tarnow, a fraud investigator and mother of two living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, begins to look into a big-time...
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Thomas Pynchon, Author, Dick Hill, Read by . Penguin Press $35 (1120p) ISBN 978-1-59420-120-2
Knotty, paunchy, nutty, raunchy, Pynchon's first novel since Mason & Dixon
(1997) reads like half a dozen books duking it out for his, and the reader's, attention. Most of them shine with a surreal incandescence, but even Pynchon fans...
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Thomas Pynchon, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Tantor Audio $99.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0370-6
Looking to add 42 CDs to your collection in one fell swoop? Possessed of 54 hours of free time that desperately need to be filled? Look no further than this audiobook of Pynchon’s latest literary behemoth, a product so ridiculously outsized it
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