Vineland - Softcover

Thomas-pynchon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140145117 ISBN 13: 9780140145113

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

A spaced-out story of Zoyd Wheeler's passion for Frenesi Gates finding fulfilment in his love for their daughter, Prairie. It has been described as "a meditation on myth-making - historical, personal, cinematic and televised". By the author of "V", "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbow".

About this title

Review:

"A major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years...One of America's great writers has, after long wanderings down his uncharted roads, come triumphantly home" (Salman Rushdie New York Times Book Review)

"Vintage stuff - funny, fantastically inventive, packed with improbable erudition" (Times Literary Supplement)

"A essential novel of our fin de siecle, a finger pointing the way out of the 1980s" (USA Today)

"His descriptive powers are breathtaking...Pynchon proves once again to be the master of what might be called the highbrow conspiracy thriller" (Wall Street Journal)

"One of the funniest, most cleverly written, superbly characterised and beautifully structured books that I have read by a living author" (Time Out)

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140145117
• ISBN 13: 9780140145113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400