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Crying of Lot 49: A Postmodern Classic – Witty Satire of Conspiracy, Paranoia, and American Life (Perennial Classics)

Thomas Pynchon

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Description:"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes."--New York TimesThomas Pynchon's highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming 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--including a teenage rock band called the Paranoids, a right-wing historian and critic of the postal system, and a former child actor with whom she has an affair--and begins to unravel conspiracies she suddenly sees all around her.Written in 1966, The Crying of Lot 49 demonstrates the piquant wit and power of invention that are the hallmarks of Pynchon's acclaimed works. It is the shortest of his novels, and widely held to be the benchmark of this literary lion's career.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crying of Lot 49: A Postmodern Classic – Witty Satire of Conspiracy, Paranoia, and American Life (Perennial Classics). To get started finding Crying of Lot 49: A Postmodern Classic – Witty Satire of Conspiracy, Paranoia, and American Life (Perennial Classics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes."--New York TimesThomas Pynchon's highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming 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--including a teenage rock band called the Paranoids, a right-wing historian and critic of the postal system, and a former child actor with whom she has an affair--and begins to unravel conspiracies she suddenly sees all around her.Written in 1966, The Crying of Lot 49 demonstrates the piquant wit and power of invention that are the hallmarks of Pynchon's acclaimed works. It is the shortest of his novels, and widely held to be the benchmark of this literary lion's career.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Crying of Lot 49: A Postmodern Classic – Witty Satire of Conspiracy, Paranoia, and American Life (Perennial Classics). To get started finding Crying of Lot 49: A Postmodern Classic – Witty Satire of Conspiracy, Paranoia, and American Life (Perennial Classics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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