Against the Day

Against the Day

The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as "a major work of art" by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters and a kaleidoscopic plot, <i>Against the Day</i> confronts a world of impending disaster, unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places and still manages to be hilarious, moving, profound, and so much more.