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Titles in this Set:

1. V
2. The Crying of Lot 49
3. Gravity’s Rainbow

Description:

V
Who, where or what is V.?

Thomas Pynchons debut novel follows discharged Navy sailor Benny Profane as he reconnects with an eclectic collection of artists known as the Whole Sick Crew, all while Herbert Stencil looks to find the woman described in his fathers diary: V.

Sweeping through sixty years, meandering across the globe and brimming with madcap characters, V. is the bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious modern classic that introduced the world to the one-of-a-kind brilliance of Thomas Pynchon.

The Crying of Lot 49
Oedipa Maas has been made executrix of her former lovers estate.

The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of lot 49.

Gravity’s Rainbow
We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to the earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesnt really begin to cover it.

Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As The Financial Times said, you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel. Forty years since its publication, Gravitys Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.