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V. by Thomas Pynchon

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Name: Thomas Pynchon
Birth Date: May 8, 1937
Place of Birth: Glen Cove, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Thomas Pynchon
1365 words, approx. 4.6 pages
The American novelist Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) is best known for V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon, complex fictions noted for their encyclopedic erudition and parodistic, labyrinthine plots. Thomas Ruggle...
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Biography of Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon, (Jr.)
15946 words, approx. 53.2 pages
Thomas Pynchon 's ancestral roots go deep into the soil of America--an appropriate genealogy for a writer whose overriding concern in his fictional project is the construction of "America" and the necessary conditions for living within that construction....
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Biography of Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon, (Jr.)
4071 words, approx. 13.6 pages
Thomas Pynchon 's willingness to address the most important cultural and social issues makes him an important writer. He depicts the plight of contemporary humanity caught in, rather than sustained by, a culture that celebrates technology and death rathe...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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V. Information
1,394 words, approx. 5 pages
V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew,...


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Cineforum
V
11/01/2007: 1,037 words, approx. 4 pages
Fra settembre e ottobre il "caso Grillo" ha attraversato tutti i media come se avesse sollevato problemi fino allora sconosciuti o quasi, il che suscita qualche sospetto o almeno qualche ipotesi: 1) la frequenza con cui gli scandali della cosiddetta antipolitica emergono, e...
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The Hunter Envoy
V-Day!
11/16/2005: 366 words, approx. 1 pages
V-day, a women's rights and awareness day, is still not as well-known as activists could hope Started in 1998 by Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, V-day has transformed into a non-profit organization that aspires to bring awareness to ongoing violent crimes...
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The New York Observer
Ladies v. Dems
3/30/2005: 608 words, approx. 2 pages
Never mind that The Century Club only began admitting women in 1988, some 140 years after it was founded. And never mind that it only took the threat of a Supreme Court decision to get it to open its doors to the fairer sex. Last...
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The New York Observer
Penn Schoen v Berland
6/22/2007: 252 words, approx. 1 pages
Some of the consultants who helped elect Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Michael Bloomberg are now on opposite sides of a law suit. The firm of Penn Schoen & Berland is suing one of its former partners, Michael Berland, for allegedly violating a no-competition agreement...
 


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