Against the Day

A fine example of a successful marriage between the popular and intellectual, between fiction and science… gloriously, demandingly, daringly, Pynchon has rediscovered vulgarity and continues to prove the novel has never been more vibrant, more various or better able to represent our complex world. Give this book your time - you’ll agree its worth it – Michael Moorcock * Daily Telegraph *The greatest, wildest author of his generation – Ian Rankin * Guardian *Against the Day is a rollercoaster ride that soars, plummets and often loops the loop…. A fantastic chronicle of how the world came into being… there is a beautifully humane, compassionate energy arcing through the book…Pynchon is the only living American author who unreservedly deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature – Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *It is a serious book and the finest thing Pynchon has done since Gravity’s Rainbow. It should be acknowledged, nonetheless that Against The Day is immensely funny, an intricate, wheezing shaggy dog joke holds you in its grip for a thousand pages. Quite a feat – Tom Adair * Scotsman *It is brilliant…There’s a wonderful gathering tenderness - and Pynchon writes some of the most beautiful sentences you are ever likely to come across * Spectator *Now aged 70 [Pynchon’s] astonishing sense of place is undiminished…That such a heavy book should bear such a light-hearted message is one final irony - yet another example of Pynchon’s wayward brilliance – Mark Sanderson * Sunday Telegraph *Expertly spoofing Victorian pulp and western dime novels, as well as paying tribute to more contemporary genres..the tone is pitched a a generally jaunty angle to the apocalyptic subject matter, and whatever drawbacks of this it certainly keeps the book moving at a good clip – James Lasdun * Guardian *Heart-stopping felicities of description lurk around every corner – Tim Martin * Independent on Sunday *Pynchon can be totally maddening, but he has a great sense of mischief – Douglas Kennedy * The Times *Clever and inventive in a mad professor kind of way…Intermittently warmed by paragraph-long sunbeams of iridescent prose-poetry * Economist *

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Slow Learner and a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

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