Jacob's Room Pynchon Part of Balzac's La Comédie

Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine cycle

a childhood trauma

Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife’s death

Arnold Baffin

The cherished classic is even more enticing in a pop-up edition

Jacob's Room Pynchon Part of Balzac's La ComédieJacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents and impressions: whether through his mother's letters, his friend's conversations, or the thoughts of the women who adore him. Then we glimpse him as a young man,