The Crying of Lot 49

Zusatztext Vintage edition of Thomas Pynchon's second novel. Oedipa Maas is made executorof a former lover's estate. Her duties set her on a strange trail of detection. 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 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 and, most recently, Against the Day . He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974. Zusammenfassung Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Pynchon
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.06.1996
• EAN: 9780099532613
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953261-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; California, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, c 1960 to c 1969, Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century