Penguin Press to Publish New Novel by Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Press president and editor-in-chief Ann Godoff has acquired U.S., Canada, and open market rights to Shadow Ticket, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon. Melanie Jackson of the eponymous agency brokered the deal.
Set in the throes of the Great Depression, the novel, the publisher said, follows “a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye who 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, ending up eventually in Hungary, and finds himself entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them.” The book will be published on October 7.
Shadow Ticket is Pynchon’s ninth novel, and his first to be published since Bleeding Edge in 2013. Throughout his career, the author has published such books as The Crying of Lot 49, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, and the National Book Award–winning Gravity’s Rainbow.
