The Crying of Lot 49
Author(s): Thomas Pynchon
SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction
"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.
1979, Seventh paperback printing. A very good copy with light edge rubbing to the wraps, light age tanning to the pages and a previous owners stamp on the front page.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Picador Books
- : Picador Books
- : 0.108
- : 01 December 1979
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- : books
Special Fields
- : 128
- : 813.5/4
- : Paperback
- : Thomas Pynchon