NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� One month shy of his 88th birthday, is set to publish his first book in 12 years.
鈥淪hadow Ticket鈥� is scheduled for Oct. 7, Penguin Press announced Wednesday.
You could call the book, set in Milwaukee in 1932, Pynchon-esque.
鈥淗icks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he鈥檚 found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who鈥檚 taken a mind to go wandering,鈥� the publisher's announcement reads in part. 鈥淏efore he knows it, he鈥檚 been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there鈥檚 no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement 鈥� and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he鈥檚 supposed to be chasing.鈥�
The famously expansive, and press-averse author has not released a new book since 鈥淏leeding Edge鈥� in 2013. He is best known for the classic 鈥淕ravity's Rainbow,鈥� and his other works include 鈥淰.鈥�, 鈥淢ason & Dixon," 鈥淎gainst the Day鈥� and 鈥淚nherent Vice.鈥�
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