V (Fabula (Tusquets Editores), #278) (Perennial Classics) (Picador Books)

by Thomas Pynchon

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious, V. as become a modern classic.

This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right.

• ISBN10: 0060930217
• ISBN13: 9780060930219
• Publish Date: 5 July 2005 (first published 26 September 1978)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 11 September 2008
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 533
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Pynchon writes phenomenal labyrinthine sentences, in his phenomenally labyrinthine book. It's the small water-drop ones that stick, footholds to scale the impossible wall:

"Contour lines and fathom-markings, cross-hatchings and colors where before there were only blank spaces on the map."