Pynchon's first novel for nearly ten years was a major literary event of 2006, and is now published in Vintage paperback. Epic and wide-ranging, original in form and structure, it spans the period from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to the years after World War 1. 'All that is glorious and exhilarating about Pynchon is found here...a mighty novel that will delight Pynchonians and seduce new-comers' }Observer Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.
