Thomas Pynchon delves into the dirty '30s for new novel "Shadow Ticket"

The ever-enigmatic Thomas Pynchon just put out a new novel "Shadow Ticket" set in the depression. Seems about right. 

This just in from Penguin Random House...

The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, bestselling and award-winning author of Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice.

“A masterpiece.” —The Telegraph

“Bonkers and brilliant fun.” —The Washington Post

“Late Pynchon at his finest. Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance — and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” —Los Angeles Times

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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 labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker 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. 

Get a copy of Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket directly from the publisher right here. 

Personally, I much prefer the typography and design of the UK edition of Shadow Ticket.