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Against the day
[a novel]
By Pynchon, Thomas
- ISBN
- 978-1-59420-120-2
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 2006
Descending in balloons on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the do-gooding young Chums of Chance (part of a worldwide brigade) get help from White City Investigations' Lew Basnight. Lew is soon off battling anarchists in the American West, where bad guys Deuce and Sloat do in Webb Traverse, whose daughter marries Deuce and whose son is escaping this accursedness at Yale. Meanwhile, the Chums float through the center of the earth to the Arctic, where they are alarmed to discover...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
