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Against the day [a novel]

Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them

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  • "Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against The Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia, Mexico during the revolution, Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against The Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia, Mexico during the revolution, Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places."
  • "Ce roman d'aventures où se croisent personnages de fiction et figures historiques se déroule entre 1893 à Chicago et le début des années 1920 à Paris. Autour de la famille Traverse, Webb, mineur syndicaliste, et ses 4 enfants, il évoque les luttes anarchistes dans l'Ouest américain, le New York du tournant du siècle et entraîne le lecteur en Europe, en Asie et dans le Mexique de la révolution. --[Memento]."
  • "El mineral transparente conocido como espato de Islandia posee la curiosa propiedad óptica de la doble refracción: duplica en paralelo la imagen del objeto que se mira a través de él. Si se contemplara la Tierra por una lámina de este espato, la imagen duplicada no sería exactamente la esperada. En un juego semejante se embarca aquí Thomas Pynchon al recrear un mundo en descomposición, el que va de la Exposición Universal de Chicago de 1893 a los años posteriores a la primera guerra mundial. Cientos de tramas entrelazadas trasladan al lector desde los conflictos laborales en las minas de Colorado hasta el Nueva York finisecular, para pasearlo después por Londres y Gotinga, Venecia y Viena, los Balcanes, el México revolucionario, el París de posguerra o el Hollywood de la era del cine mudo. Y por un laberinto de palacios y burdeles, callejones y desiertos, se mueve una abigarrada galería de personajes: anarquistas, aeronautas, tahúres, canes parlantes, científicos locos, videntes y espías, que se codean con personajes reales como Bela Lugosi o Groucho Marx, y cuyas aventuras se tejen y destejen, como un sudario del Tiempo, en torno a la historia del minero sindicalista Traverse y sus cuatro hijos."@es
  • "Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them"@en
  • "A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood."@en
  • "A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood."
  • "Ce roman d'aventures, où se croisent personnages de fiction et figures historiques, se déroule entre 1893 à Chicago et le début des années 1920 à Paris. Autour de la famille Traverse, Webb, mineur syndicaliste, et ses 4 enfants, il évoque les luttes anarchistes dans l'Ouest américain, le New York du tournant du siècle et entraîne le lecteur en Europe, en Asie et dans le Mexique de la révolution."
  • ""Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred."--English publisher."

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  • "Experimental fiction"@en
  • "Experimental fiction"@es
  • "Experimental fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Novels"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@es
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Novel·la"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en

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  • "Gegen den Tag : Roman"
  • "Against the day [a novel]"@en
  • "Against the day"@en
  • "Against the day"
  • "Contre-jour : roman"
  • "Against the day : [a novel]"
  • "Contre-jour roman"
  • "A contrallum"
  • "Contro il giorno"@it
  • "Contro il giorno"
  • "A Contrallum"@es
  • "A Contrallum"@ca
  • "Enantia stē mera : mythistorēma"
  • "Contraluz"
  • "Contraluz"@es
  • "Gegen den Tag Roman"
  • "Gegen den Tag"

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