Title, Blurb in NY Times

[Bruce Appelbaum]

Pynchon's Latest Coming in December

Thomas Pynchon's first book in nine years will be published in December, and 
booksellers are already taking advance orders. A spokeswoman for Mr. Pynchon's 
publisher, Penguin Press, confirmed that the novel, set at the turn of the 
20th century, will be titled "Against the Day" and will go on sale on Dec. 
5. And true to Pynchon form, it will be a fat one: more than 900 pages in 
manuscript. A description from the publisher's catalog - written by Mr. 
Pynchon - has been posted on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. It reads: 
"Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years 
just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado 
to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Göttingen, Venice and Vienna, 
the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska 
Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood and 
one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all." Mr. Pynchon's 
last book was "Mason & Dixon," published in 1997.



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Bruce Appelbaum

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