V.

Pages: 560
Published: 1999
Language: English

A satirical, paranoid romp through 1960s New York and the occult, with a cast of eccentric characters and a plot that unravels into conspiracy theory and metafiction — classic Pynchon territory. The tone is darkly comic and absurdist rather than straightforward; the humor is dense and ironic, and the paranoia/mystery elements (the identity of V., the conspiracy of the "T-1000" and the "T-10000" programs) are central. No romance or violence is graphic or explicit in the text, so the violence tag is absent.

Prose complexity: 7/10

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), [The Crying of Lot 49](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2636665W) (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973),...