Inherent vice

Informationen zum Autor 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 Bleeding Edge . He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974. Klappentext Part noir! part psychedelic romp! all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes! occasionally! out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. He is drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives whose cast of characters includes surfers! hustlers! dopers and rockers! a murderous loan shark! a sax player working undercover! an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang! ... Zusammenfassung It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Pynchon
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.08.2010
• EAN: 9780099542162
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954216-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary