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Written by Thomas Pynchon - Audio book performed by Dick Hill - Unabridged Fiction - 5 MP3 COMPACT DISCS - 55 hours

Publisher, Tantor Media (January 2007)

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PRAISE FOR AGAINST THE DAY

“Knotty, paunchy, nutty, raunchy” —Publishers Weekly

“(A) grand Wellsian fantasia” — Library Journal

“A capacious, gritty, and tender epic.” —Booklist

“(Pynchon's) funniest and...most accessible novel” —The New York Times Book Review

“Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling” —The Boston Globe

“Bewitching…Brilliant” —Time Magazine

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, 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.

With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.

As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.

Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.

Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck. -Thomas Pynchon

About the Author: Thomas Pynchon is the author of The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon. Pynchon is regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

About the Performer: Reader of over 200 audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie awards, and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. AudioFile includes Dick on their prestigious list of “Golden Voices.”