Description: 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 Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, and elsewhere.
Review Quotes: "[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel . . . With Against the Day, Pynchon proves himself the heir to [Conrad and Wells], and a matchless fantasist of the real." --The New York Times Book Review
"Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high-roller, tripolar . . . Buy Against the Day." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Against the Day is a major work of art and, like all creations of surpassing greatness, something to be studied." --The Wall Street Journal "Those who climb aboard Pynchon's airship will have the ride of their lives. History lesson, mystical quest, utopian dream, experimental metafiction, Marxist melodrama, Marxian comedy--Against the Day is all of these things and more." --The Washington Post Book World "Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant." --USA Today "Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling." --The Boston Globe