Vineland

Thomas Pynchon

Vineland
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 March 1997
Pages
400
ISBN
9780749391416

Vineland

Thomas Pynchon

‘Exhilarating and wretchedly funny. The most important and mysterious writer of his generation’ - Time

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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