V.
By (author): "Thomas Pynchon"
Publish Date:
August 1st 1963
ISBN0060930217
ISBN139780060930219
AsinV.
CharactersPig Bodine
Original titleV.
The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.Pynchon's V. won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation's First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by Atlantic Review as "one of the best works of the century".