Shadow Ticket

Pynchon’s gift has always been his ability to render America in its full strangeness … The book is full of exuberance. Pynchon’s sentences themselves are so alive, so pleasurable … The fact that Shadow Ticket is brilliant and prescient isn’t a surprise; that it exudes so much joy and sensuousness is – Megan Nolan * Daily Telegraph *
A living literary legend returns with a masterpiece. Featuring private eyes, Nazis and Soviets, Shadow Ticket reads like a vintage tale of adventure * Daily Telegraph *
Brilliant fun … Rollicking … Pynchon’s prose is still as balletically dazzling as the trick shot Lew teaches Hicks … It’s not just that no one else writes quite like Pynchon; it’s that no one even tries * Washington Post *
Pynchon’s livewire prose hops from subject to subject, joins the dots and makes patterns … [The novel] sets out with a song in its heart and mischievous spring in its step, but it edges into darkness * Guardian *
A 1930s detective tale with a sucker punch ending … Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance – and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open * Los Angeles Times *
Private eye Hicks McTaggart navigat[es] a world of swing bands, spies and surreal danger. A wild, genre-mashing ride from an elusive literary mind * i Paper *
The American great returns … It’s the Great Depression, and private eye Hicks McTaggart takes on a routine case that turns out to be anything but: think spies, swing musicians, interplanetary languages and paranormal intrigue * Guardian, Biggest Books of the Autumn *
The greatest, wildest author of his generation – Ian Rankin * Guardian *
One of America’s great writers – Salman Rushdie * New York Times Book Review *
A towering literary giant * GQ *

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Slow Learner (a collection of short stories), Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

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