num_pages: 492
description: This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from its strange heroine, the book's characters include sailors, spies, priests, philosophers, bums ands bawds.Cover illustration by Candida Amsden
language: English
title: V.
titlecomplete: V.
characters: Pig Bodine
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Modern, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 22947
awards: awardedAt: -189360000000
name: William Faulkner Foundation Award, awardedAt: -189360000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Pan Books