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	The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 813.54 EAN 9780060913076 ISBN 006091307X Manufacturer Harper Perennial Modern Classics Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 192 Publication Date November 07, 2006 Publisher Harper Perennial Modern Classics Release Date November 07, 2006 Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. 'The comedy crackles, the puns pop the satire explodes.' 'The work of a virtuoso with prose.intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses.' 'A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force with a strongly European flavor.' 'A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force with a strongly European flavor.' 'The work of a virtuoso with prose.intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses.' 'The comedy crackles, the puns pop the satire explodes.' The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937. His books include The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon. Customers who bought this item also bought White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) V. (Perennial Classics) Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Gravity's Rainbow Against the Day Customer Reviews for: The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) Rating - None dare call it conspiracy You know those really-need-to-give-medication-a-try types who constantly scribble in notebooks using tiny, densely packed letters and nodding knowingly at things that barely penetrate your attention? This is the kind of novel they'd write if they had somehow acquired an English degree with a specialization in Elizabethan England. I found it not that difficult, at times amusing and a useful tool for understanding the last three decades of post-ironic, post-modern, post-clarity "serious" literature. But I was ... Read More Rating - A Beautiful Sad and Funny Book One day Mrs. Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executor of her ex-lover's will. As she proceeds she discovers that the legacy with which she has been entrusted draws her ever deeper into a complex web of conspiracies. Yet what she has discovered may be no more than her own paranoia, and the novel ends ambiguously with the final revelation still impending like a judgement day forever suspended. The book walks a careful line between the comic and the tragic. It is a difficult balance and Pynchon maintains ... Read More Rating - Pynchon is God Back in the sixties, I remember carrying a well-worn copy of LOT 49 around with me wherever I went, wherever I hung out in Berkeley. Pynchon was God; He knew. He gave us the California landscape, its craziness, its mindscape as no other author had done before. So what if the book was a put-on? So what if it was really about the "selling" or "crying" in real estate terms of the lot that is California, the state created by the 49ers? So what if the characters were straight out of comic books? It was the way he had woven it all so ... Read More Rating - Worst book I have read I am afraid I finally have to use this cliche statement: This is really the worst book I have ever read. I wonder why I have even finished reading it. Probably because I wanted to find out what all the Pynchon-hype is about, or because I just expected that the book would take a turn for the better. Some say that if something is hyped, then it is probably bad. Reading Pynchon has taught me that there is some truth to that. To compare this book or draw an analogy to Ulysses is not only wrong, but also an insult to one ... Read More Rating - cozy paperback This book just feels nice, really. While the cover's texture is not the most interesting, it makes up for this by being quite flexible, and the binding is perfect. Like most paperbacks of this sort, the paper it is printed on is anything but mindblowing. Still, it is heavier than most, and the typeface is delightfully clear. While the graphic design of the cover is relevant, I am not sure that it is effective in a buy-for-its-cover kinda way. The design on the spine is awfully nice, though, so it may very ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Thomas Pynchon

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