Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Author: Pynchon, Thomas

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Open market ed

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 01-09-1997

Part Number: 9780141180632

Details: Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).

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EAN: 9780141180632

Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches

Languages: English