id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7683 Against the Day - Wikipedia .html text/html 5035 366 69 The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon. In mid-July 2006, a plot-synopsis signed by Pynchon himself appeared on Amazon.com's page for the novel, only to vanish a few days later. The published jacket-flap of the book featured an edited-down version of this text, omitting the last three sentences, references to specific authorship (as well as misspelling Nikola Tesla's first name as "Nikolai"; Pynchon had previously spelled it correctly).[8] ^ a b LeClair, Tom, Lead Zeppelin: Encounters with the unseen in Pynchon's new novel Archived 2007-01-12 at the Wayback Machine, a review of Against the Day in the Dec/Jan 2007 Book Forum. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7683.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7683.txt