The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.
Pynchon's *V*. won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation's First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by *Atlantic Review* as "one of the best works of the century".
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The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title. Pynchon's *V*. won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation's First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by *Atlantic Review* as "one of the best works of the century".