title: Against the Day
author:  Thomas Pynchon 
description: "[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel."<br /> -<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <br /><br /> "Those who climb aboard Pynchon's airship will have the ride of their lives. History lesson, mystical quest, utopian dream, experimental metafiction, Marxist melodrama, Marxian comedy- Against the Day is all of these things and more."<br /> -<i>The Washington Post Book World</i> <br /><br /> "Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant."<br /> -<i>USA Today</i> <br /><br /> "Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling."<br /> -<i>The Boston Globe</i> <br /><br /> "Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, electric, eclectic, entertaining, hyperbraining, high- roller, tripolar."<br /> -<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>
zlib_text: Thomas Pynchon and american 
  counTerculTure
  Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the 
   revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist 
  politics of Pynchon’s novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates 
  Pynchon’s commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the new left, 
  and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the psych-
  edelic movement and the women’s movement, drawing out points of 
  critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural sensibility at 
  work in Pynchon’s fiction. in emphasising the subtleties of Pynchon’s 
  responses to counterculture, Freer clarifies his importance as an intel-
  lectually rigorous political philosopher. she further suggests that, 
  like the graffiti in Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 
  “revealed in order to be thought about, expanded on, translated into 
  action by the people,” his early attraction to core countercultural val-
  ues growing into a conscious, politically motivated writing pr