Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day

Against the Day


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Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York; from London to Venice, to Siberia, to Mexico during the revolution; silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. It is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. Maybe it's not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it's what the world might be.

With "Fuzz and Fur: Japan's Costumed Characters," Edward and John Harrison delve into another bizarre and cute niche of Japanese popular culture by interviewing and photographing the men and women that create a niche in the phenomenon of "kigurumi," which roughly means "dressing up as a stuffed toy." While adoration for mythical creatures and popular anime characters is nothing new in Japan, this pastime has created a new marketing Against the Day download ebook pdf tool for local government institutions: "yuru-kyara." Roughly translated as "amateur characters," "yuru-kyara "are costumes based on local attractions and points of interest that help define any given area. Through a strange amalgam of hometown pride and cost-saving measures, municipalities often tap their citizens to design the characters. The same citizen enthusiasts also convene "yuru-kyara "conventions of their own, and give life to another aspect ofJapan's enigmatic, yet utterly captivating, visual culture.


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Author: Thomas Pynchon
Number of Pages: 1232 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780099512332
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