Against the Day (2006)
Against the Day is a 2006 forecasting book written by Thomas Pynchon.
“[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.”, The New York Times Book Review “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.”, USA Today “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.”, The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
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What is Against the Day about?
“[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.”, The New York Times Book Review “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.”, USA Today “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.”, The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
When was Against the Day published?
Against the Day was published on 21 November 2006.
Who made Against the Day?
Against the Day was written by Thomas Pynchon.