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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Thomas Pynchon
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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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". show more
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
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
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MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it
Playlist added 4/4/2013With this read I officially become a Pynchon fan. I have admired him for years but made it through only one other book, [b:Inherent Vice|5933841|Inherent Vice|Thomas Pynchon|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347697574s/5933841.jpg|6151926], which I thoroughly enjoyed, enough to gi...
sologdin
sologdin rated it
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 ...
Blogged Out Ma Nut
Blogged Out Ma Nut rated it
3.0
Un poco decepcionado... Olvidando que es Pynchon, no me parecio nada especial.
NinthWanderer
NinthWanderer rated it
I hear there are female ninjas in this one? Awesome.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
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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