Against the Day
by Thomas Pynchon
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 159420120X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201202
- Seller
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Wake Forest , North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Fine/unread. First edition/first printing. Square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket clean with no rips or creases. Not a remainder or book club printing.
Synopsis
Against the Day is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon.
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- Seller
- Universe Of Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 220909-7
- Title
- Against the Day
- Author
- Thomas Pynchon
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 159420120X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201202
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- November 21, 2006
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