Thomas Pynchon

• Other Authors: Chorier-Fryd, Bénédicte (Editor), Chamerois, Gilles (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2013
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; contemporary American fiction; postmodernism; historiographic fiction; politics; ethics; early works; post-mimetic
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Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8,1937 in Glen Cove. Long Island, New York. He started his writing career in his high school days, published his early stories in a series of magazines, came to fame in 1963 with his first novel, V., and has since been consistently praised as one of the major American...