Also known as V
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 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, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V." It was nominated for a National Book Award.
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- Author
- Alan Moore
- First published
- 1988
- Editions
- 36
- Subjects
- Fiction, Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, Politics and government, Anarchism, England in fiction, Great Britain in fiction, Totalitarianism in fiction
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Key facts
- Book.name
- V.
- Book.image
- V. (1963 1st ed cover).jpg
- Book.caption
- Cover of first edition
- Book.author
- Thomas Pynchon
- Book.country
- United States
- Book.genre
- Postmodern literature, metafiction, satire, paranoid fiction
- Book.language
- English
- Book.published
- (J. B. Lippincott & Co.)
- Book.pages
- 492
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Thomas Pynchon
- Genre
- paranoid fiction
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- The Crying of Lot 49
- Image
- V. (1963 1st ed cover).jpg
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- publication date
- 1963-01-01
- inception
- 1963-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- V.
- different from
- V
- form of creative work
- novel
- first line
- Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.
- has characteristic
- debut novel
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