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Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice

by ThomasPynchon (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

    $44.74
Synopsis

It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another one of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there...or...if you were there, then you...or, wait is it...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Media tie-in
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 15 Jan 2015
ISBN 10: 178470041X
ISBN 13: 9781784700416
Book Overview: Read the cult classic behind the major film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin and Reese Witherspoon, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights)

Media Reviews
Hilarious and thought-provoking * London Review of Books *
Brilliant and brain boggling by turns * Daily Mail *
Inherent Vice works brilliantly as both a neon-lit noir and as a psychedelic lament to the Sixties * Sunday Telegraph *
The greatest, wildest author of his generation * Guardian *
The intellectual game-play is characteristically dazzling...colourful and pleasurable * Financial Times *
You don't have to have been there; if you're willing, he'll take you there -- Michael Carlson * Spectator *
The pioneering work in a genre you'd have to call psychedelic Noir ...Who writes sentences as beautiful as Pynchon? -- Sam Leith * Daily Mail *
Pynchon leaves the rest of the American literary establishment at the starting gate...the range over which he moves is extraordinary, not simply in terms of ideas explored but also in the range of emotions he takes you through * Time Out *
The most important and mysterious writer of his generation * Time *
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.