V.

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V.

Cover of first edition
Author	Thomas Pynchon
Language	English
Genre	Postmodern literature, metafiction satire, paranoid fiction
Published	March 18, 1963 (1963-03-18) (J. B. Lippincott & Co.)
Publication place	United States
Pages	492

V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963.^[1] It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V." It was nominated for a National Book Award.