Vineland
  • Published: 31 March 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749391416
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

Vineland

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'Exhilarating and wretchedly funny. The most important and mysterious writer of his generation' - Time

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.).
  • Published: 31 March 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749391416
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Thomas Pynchon

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, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Also by Thomas Pynchon

Bleeding Edge
Inherent Vice
Against the Day
Mason & Dixon
The Crying of Lot 49
Gravity's Rainbow
Slow Learner
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Praise for Vineland

A major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years...One of America's great writers has, after long wanderings down his uncharted roads, come triumphantly home

Salman Rushdie, New York Times Book Review

Vintage stuff - funny, fantastically inventive, packed with improbable erudition

Times Literary Supplement

A essential novel of our fin de siecle, a finger pointing the way out of the 1980s

USA Today

His descriptive powers are breathtaking...Pynchon proves once again to be the master of what might be called the highbrow conspiracy thriller

Wall Street Journal

One of the funniest, most cleverly written, superbly characterised and beautifully structured books that I have read by a living author

Time Out

How this book towers...it is a political novel in the ambitious, exuberant, powerfully serious mode of The Satanic Verses..It is funny, very funny

Fay Weldon