Bücher von Thomas Pynchon

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate.

Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her licence got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics.

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. as become a modern classic. This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right.

Gravity's Rainbow is never a single story, but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension.

Philip Marlowe in Schlaghosen.Kalifornien 1970: Der junge Hippie-Detektiv Doc Sportello erhält den Auftrag, beim Bodyguard eines Immobilienhais Schulden einzutreiben. Als Doc aus einem neongrellen Marihuana-Rausch erwacht, blickt er allerdings in das Gesicht von Lieutenant Bigfoot Bjornsen. Die Leiche des Bodyguards neben ihm sieht aus wie ein frisch geschlachteter Truthahn. Der Immobilienhai ist entführt, und Bigfoot, der Leuten gern seine Stacheldrahtsammlung zeigt, mag keine Hippies ¿Pynchon, der «Shakespeare der Popkultur» (Welt) schreibt über Verbrecher und Surfer, Manson und Nixon, über das Ende des Summer of Love und die Geburt des Internets.«Das zugänglichste Werk des größten amerikanischen Autors der Gegenwart, die perfekte Einstiegsdroge.» (Stern)

Die Hausfrau Oedipa Maas wird zur Testamentsvollstreckerin ihres ehemaligen Liebhabers bestimmt, des Immobilienspekulanten Pierce Inverarity. Sie macht sich auf den Weg durch Kalifornien und versucht herauszufinden, wer Pierce Inverarity war, wer sie selbst und was Amerika ist, und lernt dabei eine andere Welt als ihre bisherige kennen, die völlig anderen Regeln folgt. Umgeben von Ausgeflippten, Isolierten und Verstörten, die von der Welt ausgeschieden worden sind wie Abfall, scheint Oedipa einer jahrhundertealten Gegenverschwörung auf die Spur zu kommen. Oder ist alles nur eine Fiktion, ein Wahn?

Eine historische Romanze über New York in den frühen Tagen des Internets. Ironisch, anarchisch, düster.«Bleeding Edge» nennt man eine so neuartige elektronische Anwendung, dass sie noch keinen erwiesenen Nutzen hat. Wie etwa DeepArcher, eine verbesserte Version von Second Life, in der alles möglich scheint. Sogar Geldwäsche oder Terrorplanung für 9 /11, ohne dass man eine Spur hinterlässt. Deshalb interessiert sich dafür neben Geheimdiensten und internationalen Verbrechern auch eine kleine New Yorker Wirtschaftsdetektivin namens Maxine Tarnow, jüdisch, geschieden, zwei schulpflichtige Kinder, mit einer wirklich wenig beeindruckenden Beule in der Handtasche, da, wo sie ihre Damen-Beretta versteckt ...

A New York Times besteller!It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics-carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people's bank accounts-without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom-two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood-till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler's aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.With occasional excursions into the DeepWeb and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we've journeyed to since.Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?Hey. Who wants to know?The Washington Post"Brilliantly written… a joy to read… Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." (Michael Dirda)Slate.com"If not here at the end of history, when? If not Pynchon, who? Reading Bleeding Edge, tearing up at the beauty of its sadness or the punches of its hilarity, you may realize it as the 9/11 novel you never knew you needed… a necessary novel and one that literary history has been waiting for."The New York Times Book ReviewExemplary… dazzling and ludicrous... Our reward for surrendering expectations that a novel should gather in clarity, rather than disperse into molecules, isn't anomie but delight." (Jonathan Lethem)Wired magazine"The book's real accomplishment is to claim the last decade as Pynchon territory, a continuation of the same tensions - between freedom and captivity, momentum and entropy, meaning and chaos - through which he has framed the last half-century."

Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1963, "V." remains a popular literary classic by one of America's great modernists. "This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century."-- "Atlantic Review" "This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." "--Atlantic Review" "Filled with wild humor, inventive wordplay and a darkly imaginative power." "--Philadelphia Inquirer"

It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say.

Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).