Thomas Pynchon: Vineland
Vineland
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 05/1992
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780749391416
- Bestellnummer: 2152553
- Umfang: 385 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2000
- Gewicht: 287 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 7.5.1992
- Serie: Vintage Classics
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Kurzbeschreibung
'Exhilarating and wretchedly funny. The most important and mysterious writer of his generation' - TimeBeschreibung
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 .).