V.

"Filled with wild humor, inventive wordplay and a darkly imaginative power." - Philadelphia Inquirer

"[V.] sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. What does it mean? Who. finally, is V. ? Few books haunt the waking or the sleeping mind, but this is one. Who, indeed?" - Time

"[A] brilliant and turbulent first novel." - George Plimpton, New York Times Book Review

"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." - Atlantic Review

"[V. ] leaves the imagination spent and the mind reeling." - New York Herald Tribune

"One of the most interesting productions of our century. . . . Pynchon's creative imagination is amazing. . . . This work may well stand as one of the very best novels of the century." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"The underpinnings of Pynchon's satire-the mathematical precision of his settings, the feverishly-sustained atmosphere of his conspiracy-are part of his book's fascination. But even more exciting to behold here is the scope of a highly-energized mind at work." - Boston Globe

"Highly original. . . . [Pynchon] has produced as sophisticated and worldly a string of words as anyone has put together in novel form. . . . There is something for everyone here." - Chicago Tribune

"The pace is breathless and the spectacle breathtaking . . . . I hope his next book will be every bit as wild, as unrestrained, as inventive, as hilarious, as invigorating as this one. . . . Benny Profane-and Thomas Pynchon-look with a wry eye at our cockeyed world and its people, with a welcome and astringent irony. " - Globe and Mail

"A cool, skilled, enigmatic first novel." - New Yorker

"It is easier to nail a blob of mercury than to describe this novel by Thomas Pynchon." - Saturday Review