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Shadow Ticket

novel by Pynchon

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    In Thomas Pynchon: Shadow Ticket

    In 2025 Pynchon published Shadow Ticket, a Prohibition-era novel set in 1930s Milwaukee that follows Hicks McTaggart, a private eye tasked with tracking down a missing cheese heiress. Soon enough, McTaggart winds up in Europe, where he uncovers a conspiracy involving fraud, fascism,…

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