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Product details
- ISBN 9780749391416
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 1992
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The inspiration for One Battle After Another
Thomas Pynchon's wretchedly funny dystopian thriller, sending up the end days of the American dream
Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.
Full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs, movie spoofs, and illicit sex, Vineland is vintage Pynchon.
'That rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years' Salman Rushdie
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day and Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
