Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

Shadow Ticket by Thomas PynchonA private eye is catapulted on to a riotous and continent hopping journey that proves difficult to escape the new novel from the visionary storyteller. Milwaukee 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 labour management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks

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} The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples

A beautifully illustrated introduction to Australian art history from colonization through today

complex emotions

video game-like dungeon

eugenics and the immorality of past policies

while they're all ablaze

text-indent:0pt} A gripping journey through the past

First published over 100 years ago in 1918

Lately she's been finding the edge of the railway platform dangerously seductive