Book description
The new novel from Thomas PynchonMilwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found…
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1 author picked Shadow Ticket as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Pynchon can be a challenge, but this one was about as accessible as he gets. No one's mind works the way he does, and his verbal cleverness is in a league of its own. I love the way he captured the atmosphere of the Prohibition era in Milwaukee, the snappy dialogue of the characters, and then expands the scene to pre-World War II Europe, when all sorts of ugly stuff is taking shape.
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