The Crying Of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon

The Crying Of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon

by ThomasPynchon (Author)

Synopsis

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, "The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting "The Crying of Lot 49". This is one of Pynchon's shortest novels and one of his best.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Jun 1996

ISBN 10: 0099532611
ISBN 13: 9780099532613
Book Overview: A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

Media Reviews
The best American novel I have read since the war -- Frank Kermode
For the reader who has yet to make acquaintance with this important comic talent. . . an appropriate introduction...defiantly, purposefully outrageous * Spectator *
The Crying of Lot 49 contains some of the most elegiac writing about America since Fitzgerald, as well as packing an intense metaphorical punch about revelation, hierophany, meaning and connection that is far too complex to reduce to precis * Observer *
Author Bio
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.