V. is Thomas Pynchon's first novel, published in 1963, telling the stories of Benny Profane, an ex-Navy sailor rejoining a group of New York bohemians called the "Whole Sick Crew" in 1956 and of Herbert Stencil, who attempts to find the elusive "V." over the course of a generation. The novel switches between these plots through various episodes, converging through the journals of Stencil's father and through Stencil and Benny's trip to Malta.
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