The Crying of Lot 49: Thomas P
Pynchon, Thomas
ISBN 10: 0099532611 ISBN 13: 9780099532613
Published by Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random, 1996
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Oedipa Maas has been made executrix of her former lover’s estate.
The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of lot 49.
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 is by far the shortest of Pynchon’s great, dazzling novels – and one of his most iconic.
‘The best American novel I have read since the war’ Frank Kermode
‘Remarkable... The Crying of Lot 49 resembles metaphysical poetry in the range of its allusions and the curiosity of its creator’ Washington Post
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 and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
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Title: The Crying of Lot 49: Thomas P
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good