Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to hist
Pynchon in his 1953 yearbook image
Pynchon, aged 16, in his high school senior portrait
V. (1963)
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Shadow Ticket
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Shadow Ticket is a novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon. It was announced by Penguin Press in April 2025 and published in October the same year. The novel, which is set in 1932, centers on a Mi
Thomas Pynchon
…Dixon (1997), Against the Day (2006), Inherent Vice (2009), which was adapted for film in 2014, and Bleeding Edge (2013). Pynchon's latest novel, Shadow Ticket, was published in 2025. Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, New York on Long Island, one of three children of engineer and politician…
Shadow Ticket