Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2006 (1st UK edition, 1st printing - see the number line).
Hardcover in the original dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine.
Thick octavo, 1,085, [2] (blank, colophon) pages.
Spanning the period from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to the years following the First World War, Against the Day is Pynchon’s vast historical novel of anarchism, industrial power, mathematics, espionage and political upheaval. Its many interwoven narratives range across the United States, Europe, Mexico and Central Asia.
THOMAS PYNCHON is one of the most important American postmodern novelists, best known for V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow and Mason & Dixon. Gravity’s Rainbow received the 1974 National Book Award.
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