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Vineland
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- Book Synopsis
- The inspiration for One Battle After Another Thomas Pynchon's wretchedly funny dystopian thriller, sending up the end days of the American dream 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. Full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs, movie spoofs, and illicit sex, Vineland is vintage Pynchon. 'That rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years' Salman Rushdie
- About The Author
- Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner (a collection of short stories), Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780749391416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics, (07 May 1992)
- Number of Pages
- 385
- Weight
- 284 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 130 x 27 mm
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