New Releases by Thomas Pynchon

"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." -- English publisher.

A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity''s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce''s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Tyrone Slothrop, un militar estadounidense que trabaja para la inteligencia aliada en Londres, en 1944, padece un grave problema: siempre que cae una de las bombas autopropulsadas alemanas V-2, el tiene una ereccion. De nino, Slothrop fue sometido a experimentos pavlovianos por el profesor Laszlo Jamf, un loco cientifico aleman que ahora trabaja para los nazis. Laszlo invento el Imipolex G, un plastico que se utilizara para el aislamiento de los cohetes, y condiciono las partes pudendas de Tyrone para que respondieran a la presencia de ese nuevo plastico. Ahora, ya adulto, nuestro protagonista no puede evitar sentir la presencia del Imipolex en las bombas, y sus superiores militares estan investigandolo. En una Alemania devastada por la guerra, Tyrone se enfrenta a legiones de extranos enemigos, de los que tendra que huir haciendo cabriolas. TAPA RUSTICA

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment''s dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.

Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie''s long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.). For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.

Pynchons 3. Roman dreht sich um die deutsche V 2-Rakete, Symbol elegant-todbringender Technik wie einer pervertierten Sexualität.

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, "Gravity''s Rainbow" is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce''s "Ulysses" was to the first.

Meatball Mulligan throws a lease-breaking party at his apartment in Washington, D.C. in early February of 1957.