V.The first novel by the 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. has become a modern classic. The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation Ian Rankin, Guardian To read V. today is to experience Pynchon anew New Yorker