Warlock (Hall novel)
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Warlock is a Western novel by the American author Oakley Hall. It was published on September 5, 1958, by Viking Press. The story is set in the early 1880s, in a fictional southwestern mining town call
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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
Warlock (Hall novel)
…Warlock as belonging to the "pantheon of western masterpieces" alongside Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and John Williams's Butcher's Crossing. Thomas Pynchon and Richard Fariña were fans of the novel when they were students at Cornell University. In an introduction to Fariña's Been Down So Long It Looks Like…
Pynchon in his 1953 yearbook image
Pynchon, aged 16, in his high school senior portrait
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