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  • Thomas Pynchon

3.75

12 ratings

Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V [Victoria Wren], who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Missing persons
  • Psychological fiction
  • Bohemianism
  • Symbolism
  • Rogues and vagabonds
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction in English
  • Missing persons--fiction
  • Ps3566.y55 v2 2005
  • 813/.54
  • Hu 4796
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About the author

  • Thomas Pynchon

    born 8 May 1937

    3.70

    104 ratings · 30 works

Editions

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Perennial Classics

    April 1, 1999

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    Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    April 1, 1999

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    Bantam Books

    1964

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    Bantam Books

    1964

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Bantam Books

1964

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    Bantam books

    June 1, 1984

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    1st Perennial Fiction Library ed.

    Perennial Library

    1986

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    Lippincott

    1963

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    Seuil

    December 30, 2000

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    Buccaneer Books

    February 1990

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    1st Perennial Fiction Library ed.

    Perennial Library

    1986

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    Rowohlt Tb.

    December 1, 1994

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    New Ed edition

    Vintage Classics

    February 16, 1995

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    Harper Perennial

    February 1990

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    Harper Perennial

    February 1990

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    Vintage Classics

    February 16, 1995

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    Seuil

    October 1, 1985

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    Lippincott

    1963-01-01

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    Cape

    1963-01-01

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2023

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    Tandem Library

    April 1999

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    Tusquets

    June 2002

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    Modern Library

    1966

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    Lippincott

    1963

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    Cape

    1963

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    Harper & Row

    1986

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    Bantam

    1964

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    Pan Books

    1975

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    Bantam Books

    1964

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    Bantam

    1977

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    Bantam

    1973

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    Bantam Books

    December 1981

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    Random House

    June 1976

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    "Simpozium"

    2000

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    Borgo Press

    June 1991

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    Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

    June 1963

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    Cape

    1963