"Rejoice, dear readers, and prepare to welcome a publishing event that's almost as rare and potentially as disorienting as the emergence of a brood of cicadas. Thomas Pynchon, our literary recluse par excellence, has peeked out from wherever he's been hiding and shared with the world some much-appreciated proof of life: his first new novel since 2013."
"Shadow Ticket promises vintage Pynchon: a madcap mystery set in a discrete historical moment in this case, the depths of the Great Depression and beset by virtually every bonkers conspiracy you can conceive of, and many you can't yet. Hicks McTaggart, the private eye unlucky enough to ply this trademark Pynch-topia, can expect his hands full and dance card filling fast, if only he could make out its inscrutable jottings."
"Even at 88 years old, America's most venerable paranoiac continues to display a preternatural feel for the Venn diagram of silly, surreal and genuinely frightening. This time it's the disappearance of a cheese heiress that gets the action moving, and draws our hapless protagonist into a rabbit hole whose depths he and by extension, we can only hope to guess at."
Thomas Pynchon published Shadow Ticket, his first novel since 2013, set in the depths of the Great Depression. The novel follows private eye Hicks McTaggart into a madcap mystery riddled with bonkers conspiracies surrounding the disappearance of a cheese heiress. The tone blends silly, surreal and genuinely frightening elements that sustain a paranoiac sensibility. The release arrives amid other new books, including Venetian Vespers by John Banville, recent screen adaptations of Pynchonian work, and nonfiction that examines hometown decline and embodied political resistance. Readers can expect vintage Pynchonian picaresque energy and intricate overlaps of humor and dread.
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