V.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. as become a modern classic. This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon. The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V. ? Bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious, V. as become a modern classic. ''The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation'' Ian Rankin, Guardian''To read V. today is to experience Pynchon anew'' New Yorker