Also known as V
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 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." It was nominated for a National Book Award.
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- Author
- Alan Moore
- First published
- 1988
- Editions
- 36
- Subjects
- Fiction, Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, Politics and government, Anarchism, England in fiction, Great Britain in fiction, Totalitarianism in fiction
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Key facts
- Book.name
- V.
- Book.image
- V. (1963 1st ed cover).jpg
- Book.caption
- Cover of first edition
- Book.author
- Thomas Pynchon
- Book.country
- United States
- Book.genre
- Postmodern literature, metafiction, satire, paranoid fiction
- Book.language
- English
- Book.published
- (J. B. Lippincott & Co.)
- Book.pages
- 492
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- V. (1963 1st ed cover).jpg
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- publication date
- 1963-01-01
- inception
- 1963-00-00
- title
- V.
- first line
- Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia.
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27 sectionsContents
- Plot summary
- Chapter One: "In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir"
- Chapter Two: "The Whole Sick Crew"
- Chapter Three: "In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations"
- Chapter Four: In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job
- Chapter Five: In Which Stencil Nearly Goes West with an Alligator
- Chapter Six: In which Profane returns to street level
- Chapter Seven: She hangs on the western wall
- Chapter Eight: In which Rachel gets her yo-yo back, Roony sings a song, and Stencil calls on Bloody Chiclitz
- Chapter Nine: Mondaugen's story
- Chapter Ten: In which various sets of young people get together
- Chapter Eleven: Confessions of Fausto Maijstral
- Chapter Twelve: In which things are not so amusing
- Chapter Thirteen: In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind
- Chapter Fourteen: V. in love
- Chapter Fifteen: Sahha
- Chapter Sixteen: Valletta
- Epilogue
- Characters
- Major characters
- Minor characters
- Analysis and reception
- Editions
- In popular culture
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 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." It was nominated for a National Book Award.
==Plot summary==