Description
Pynchon, Thomas:. V. Bantam Paperback, 1968. 463 pages. Name at front else clean with only wear to exterior. Lovely contemporary US edition
V. was the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. 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.”
