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Pynchon, Thomas.
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Hippies -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Nineteen eighties -- Fiction.
California, Northern -- Fiction.
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Pynchon, Thomas.
Hippies -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Nineteen eighties -- Fiction.
California, Northern -- Fiction.
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Vineland
/ Thomas Pynchon.
by
Pynchon, Thomas.
Penguin Books, 1997.
Call #:
FICTION PYN
Subjects
Hippies -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixties -- Fiction.
Nineteen eighties -- Fiction.
California, Northern -- Fiction.
Series
Penguin twentieth-century classics.
ISBN:
9780141180632 (trade pbk.)
Description:
385 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published 1990.
Summary:
"
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.
Vineland
is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs (“Floozy with an Uzi”), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.)."--Publisher's website.
Genre:
Political fiction.
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1
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FICTION PYN
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