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Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s latest (and, for an octogenarian author, possibly last) novel, opens with a bang. It is 1932, and Hicks McTaggart, a private eye in the employ of Unamalgamated Ops and ...

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Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in late style. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness? Hicks is barely on the case of Stuffy’s exploded hooch wagon before he’s hit with ...