Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
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The new novel from Thomas Pynchon
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks heβs found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune whoβs taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, heβs been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where thereβs no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirementβand of course no sign of the runaway heiress heβs supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and canβt see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is itβs the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens heβs a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks heβs found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune whoβs taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, heβs been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where thereβs no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirementβand of course no sign of the runaway heiress heβs supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and canβt see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is itβs the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens heβs a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.
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Thomas Pynchon is the author of V.; The Crying of Lot 49; Gravityβs Rainbow; Slow Learner, a collection of short stories; Vineland; Mason & Dixon; Against the Day; Inherent Vice; and Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravityβs Rainbow in 1974.
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