Vineland

Author: Thomas Pynchon

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780749391416
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : November 1990
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 25mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Barcode 9780749391416
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Description

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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An eye catching reissue of Pynchon's classic novel

Author description

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, Mason & Dixon and, most recently, Against the Day. He won the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974