<p>Offers a brief biography of Thomas Pynchon and discusses the plots, characters, and themes of The Crying of Lot 49, V, Gravity's Rainbow, and Mason &amp; Dixon..</p>

Thomas Pynchon (Bloom's Major Novelists)

Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold

Kress, Dave

Literature & Fiction

Chelsea House Pub

Fiction. Kress's first novel reminds us how intelligent a form the novel can be, in the right hands. COUNTING ZERO is a keenly apprehended story, written with articulate zest and a voracious appetite for the things of everyday life seen in consummate detail. "This novel ... is a mature, elegant piece of work. Yes, Virginia, there are still some stylists on the Rialto"--Paul West.

Counting Zero

United States

Mammoth Books

Fiction. Dave Kress draws us into the tale of Ray "Gnat" Smith from a variety of perspectives: sometimes we read Gnat's first-person accounts, sometimes we find his discarded rants; occasionally, Gnat is simply a face in someone else's crowd, or his exploits related by a pack of narrators, some kind, others openly hostile. But Martians doesn't suggest that these perspectives add to each other or to our knowledge of Gnat; rather it asks readers to consider them as multiple subtractions: without identity, knowledge, or ethics, just what are humans and what kind of world do they inhabit? World travelers alien in their own skin? Accidents of a nature they themselves have constructed? Familiar and weird at the same time, Martians asks its readers to remove the linchpin holding together the ordinary--and then to stand back.

Martians, A Creature

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Thomas Pynchon (Bloom's Major Novelists)

Counting Zero

Martians, A Creature