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Thomas Pynchon

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SUMMARY:
Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1963, “V.” remains a popular literary classic by one of America's great modernists. “This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century.”— “Atlantic Review” “This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century.” “--Atlantic Review” “Filled with wild humor, inventive wordplay and a darkly imaginative power.” “--Philadelphia Inquirer”
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  • Liamhas quoted3 years ago
    Time has touched her. I found myself wondering: did she know that in this infant she brought forth, to whom she gave the name for happy (ironic?) was a soul which would become torn and unhappy? Does any mother anticipate the future; acknowledge when the time comes that a son is now a man and must leave her to make whatever peace he can alone on a treacherous earth. No, it's the same Maltese timelessness. They don't feel the fingers of years jittering age, fallibility, blindness into face, heart and eyes. A son is a son, fixed always in the red and wrinkled image as they first see it. There are always elephants to be made drunk.
  • Liamhas quoted3 years ago
    He always wore a hat, inside or outside, in bed or dead drunk. And George Raft suits, with immense pointed lapels. Pointed, starched, non-button-down collars. Padded, pointed shoulders: he was all points. But his face, the girl noticed, was not: rather soft, like a dissolute angel's: curly hair, red and purple rings slung looped in twos and threes beneath the eyes. Tonight she would kiss beneath his eyes, one by one, these sad circles.

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