{"product_id":"against-the-day-isbn-9780143112563","title":"Against the Day","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller • A \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year • A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar . . . Buy \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.“[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel . . . With \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Pynchon proves himself the heir to [Conrad and Wells], and a matchless fantasist of the real.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar . . . Buy \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e.\"  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work of art and, like all creations of surpassing greatness, something to be studied.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Those who climb aboard Pynchon's airship will have the ride of their lives. History lesson, mystical quest, utopian dream, experimental metafiction, Marxist melodrama, Marxian comedy—\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e is all of these things and more.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThomas Pynchon is the author of\u003ci\u003e V.\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGravity’s Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSlow Learner\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories; \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eInherent Vice\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBleeding Edge\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eShadow Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGravity’s Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e in 1974.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301421207781,"sku":"NP9780143112563","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143112563.jpg?v=1767721125","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/against-the-day-isbn-9780143112563","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}