Pynchon
Americannoun
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Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.
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William, 1590?–1662, English colonist in America.
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Example Sentences
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“Sailing to Philadelphia” inspired me to pick up Pynchon’s novel after I first heard it in the early 2000s.
From Los Angeles Times
In my years studying at Dartmouth, I dove into the American novel, from Melville to Pynchon.
One example is “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film that is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s post-Watergate novel “Vineland.”
From Salon
Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.
When “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” came out, Mr. Pynchon said that he hoped “it winds up changing the brainscape of America.”
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