In one of his short stories, a group of children initiate a black boy into their practical joke-playing gang, while another of his short stories ends with a bird dying in Callisto's hands during a disorderly party given by Meatball Mulligan.
In one of his short stories, a group of children initiate a black boy into their practical joke-playing gang, while another of his short stories ends with a bird dying in Callisto's hands during a disorderly party given by Meatball Mulligan. Besides "The Secret Integration" and "Entropy," his first novel describes Benny Profane's attempt to reconnect with the Whole Sick Crew and Herbert Stencil's search for the title entity. In another of his novels, signs of the Tristero organization appear all over San Narciso to Oedipa Maas, while his most famous novel describes the construction of an enormous V-2 rocket and begins "A screaming comes across the sky." FTP, identify this reclusive author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow.
In one of his short stories, a group of children initiate a black boy into their practical joke-playing gang, while another of his short stories ends with a bird dying in Callisto's hands during a disorderly party given by Meatball Mulligan.
Thomas Ruggles {Pynchon}, Jr.