The Crying of Lot 49

"A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." -- San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon''s highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

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 & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge, and Shadow Ticket. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Pynchon
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.04.2014
• EAN: 9780062334411
• ISBN: 978-0-06-233441-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions; Harper Perennial Deluxe Editio
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Politics, US South, FICTION: Indigenous, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Action & Adventure, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Political, FICTION: Classics, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Southern, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Adventure / action fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Classics