Thomas Pynchon's new novel Shadow Ticket to land on October 7, his first in 12 years
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Shadow Ticket is scheduled for October 7, Penguin Press announced on April 9.
You could call the book, set in the American city of Milwaukee in 1932, Pynchon-esque.
'Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strike-breaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who's taken a mind to go wandering,' the publisher's announcement reads in part.
'Before he knows it, he's been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there's no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he's supposed to be chasing.'
A social media post from Penguin Press heralds the coming of Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket. Photo: Instagram/penguinpress
The famously expansive and press-averse author has not released a new book since Bleeding Edge in 2013.
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