Vineland

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 Pynchon's major political novel! first published in 1990. Reissued to tie in with the paperback edition of "Against The Day". 'Exhilarating and wretchedly funny.' "Time" Zusammenfassung Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Pynchon
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.1992
• EAN: 9780749391416
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9141-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, California, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Politics, Alternative lifestyles, Modern and contemporary fiction, Social groups: alternative lifestyles, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)