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Against the Day
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Against the Day

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  • Gravity's Rainbow
    Thomas Pynchon
    / Vineland, Inherent Vice, and other novels

    
Dixon as his subject, and Against the Day (2006) moves from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 through World War I. Inherent Vice (2009), Pynchon’s rambling take on the detective novel, returns to the California counterculture milieu of Vineland. It was made into a film by Paul Thomas Anderson in


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Dixon as his subject, and Against the Day (2006) moves from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 through World War I. Inherent Vice (2009), Pynchon’s rambling take on the detective novel, returns to the California counterculture milieu of Vineland. It was made into a film by Paul Thomas Anderson in


    Read More