V. pre GEN FIC-GENERAL FICTION She drifts into an affair

She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set

or supportive family members to combat their feelings of shame and guilt

the Eclogues paved the way for the Georgics and the Aeneid

A Wedding at the Chateau is a romantic and heartwarming story

his periods of grace

V. pre GEN FIC-GENERAL FICTION She drifts into an affairThe first novel by the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon. The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilarious, V. as become a modern classic. 'The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation' Ian Rankin, Guardian 'To read V. today is to