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Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
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Description for Bleeding Edge
Paperback. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her licence got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 394.
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099590361
SKU
V9780099590361
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-97
About Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
Reviews for Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon, America’s greatest novelist, has written the greatest novel about the most significant events in his country’s 21st century history. It is unequivocally a masterpiece.
Stuart Kelly
Scotsman
It’s dense, complex and riotously, ridiculously funny.
Esquire
The looming shadow of 9/11 touches every page. Nonetheless, many of those pages are outrageously funny, others are ... Read more
Stuart Kelly
Scotsman
It’s dense, complex and riotously, ridiculously funny.
Esquire
The looming shadow of 9/11 touches every page. Nonetheless, many of those pages are outrageously funny, others are ... Read more