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Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
* Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Nov. 2006. c.1085p. ISBN 1-59420-120-2 [ISBN 978-159420-120-2]. $35. F
Descending in balloons on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the do-gooding young Chums of Chance (part of a worldwide brigade) get help from White City Investigations' Lew Basnight. Lew is soon off battling anarchists in the American West, where bad guys Deuce and Sloat do in Webb Traverse, whose daughter marries Deuce and whose son is escaping this accursedness at Yale. Meanwhile, the Chums float through the center of the earth to the Arctic, where they are alarmed to discover a scion of the robber Barron--ish Vibe family excavating …
