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| Author | Thomas Pynchon |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Postmodern literature, metafiction satire, paranoid fiction |
| Published | March 18, 1963 (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 492 |
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963.[1] 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.
- ^ "New Books Received". Hartford Courant. February 27, 1963. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.