Thomas Pynchon wrote his first novel in more than a decade, announced the publisher Penguin Random House (PRH).
Shadow Ticket, which will be released in October, will be the 10th book of the American novelist. Like its two previous ones, inherent Vice (2009) and Swelling Edge (2013), this new work is a black novel on a private eye.
Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin During the Great Depression, Shadow Ticket follows Hicks MCTAGGART, a detective responsible for finding the heiress of a fortune with cheese. He ended up being in Hungary and finds himself entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British spies, swing musicians, practitioners of paranormal and out of the law.
“The only good side for Hicks is that it is the dawn of the Big Band era and in this case, it is a fairly good dancer”, reads the description of Shadow Ticket on the PRH website. “That this will be enough to allow him to make his way to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.”
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The 87-year-old author is best known for his rainbow of Magnum Opus Gravity in 1973, which some criticisms called the greatest American post-war novel. He covered all kinds of themes in his work, from music to mathematics, often exploring conspiracy theories and paranoia.
Pynchon mainly avoided the attention of the press since its postmodern V inceptions V became a bestseller after its publication in 1963, covering the windows with black sheets, writing all night and sleep all day. After a camera team recorded him in Manhattan in 1997, he called CNN to protest. “Let me be unambiguous,” he said. “I prefer not to be photographed.”
Shadow Ticket will be published on October 7 by Penguin Press in the United States and Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom.
