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The Small Rain
- GenresFiction
20 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1959
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Thomas Pynchon
48 books8,003 followersThomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and nonfiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served 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 (1966), and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Rumors of a historical novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had circulated as early as the 1980s; the novel, Mason & Dixon, was published in 1997 to critical acclaim. His 2009 novel Inherent Vice was adapted into a feature film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel, Bleeding Edge, was published on September 17, 2013.
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served 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 (1966), and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Rumors of a historical novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had circulated as early as the 1980s; the novel, Mason & Dixon, was published in 1997 to critical acclaim. His 2009 novel Inherent Vice was adapted into a feature film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel, Bleeding Edge, was published on September 17, 2013.
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July 17, 2019
A bit rough in patches but certainly wort
April 15, 2025
Swamp Wench sounds a banger.
August 28, 2025
Levine had put on a pair of sunglasses and was reading the paperback again, something called Swamp Wench.
Pynchon in his infancy as a writer. There are certainly glimmers of the maestro's future status in this and the set piece of the drowned town is quite good but there's basically no plot and it feels somewhat ephemeral.
Pynchon in his infancy as a writer. There are certainly glimmers of the maestro's future status in this and the set piece of the drowned town is quite good but there's basically no plot and it feels somewhat ephemeral.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews