Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
A spaced-out story of Zoyd Wheeler's passion for Frenesi Gates finding fulfilment in his love for their daughter, Prairie. It has been described as "a meditation on myth-making - historical, personal, cinematic and televised". By the author of "V", "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbow".
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A spaced-out story of Zoyd Wheeler's passion for Frenesi Gates finding fulfilment in his love for their daughter, Prairie. It has been described as "a meditation on myth-making - historical, personal, cinematic and televised". By the author of "V", "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbow".
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141180632 (0141180633)
ASIN: 141180633
Publish date: September 1st 1997
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
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A dystopian presentation, but with zombies and ninja magic, of Reagan's United States.Follows a group of '60s new leftists and their antagonists, through use of translucent digressions, elliptical flashbacks, and abrupt changes of perspective, back and forth through several decades.It might read as ...
Un poco decepcionado... Olvidando que es Pynchon, no me parecio nada especial.
I hear there are female ninjas in this one? Awesome.
This is the first Pynchon I remember reading and really enjoying. Twenty years later, the only thing I remember is the worms playing pinochle (a variant of the rhyme I was not previously familiar with)
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