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Vineland
Artikel-Nr:
9780749391416
Veröffentl:
1992
Einband:
B-format paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.05.1992
Seiten:
385
Autor:
Thomas Pynchon
Gewicht:
287 g
Format:
198x128x30 mm
Serie:
Vintage Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
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.).
'Exhilarating and wretchedly funny. The most important and mysterious writer of his generation' - Time
'Exhilarating and wretchedly funny. The most important and mysterious writer of his generation' - Time