The Crying of Lot 49: A Novel - Couverture souple

Pynchon, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006091307X ISBN 13 : 9780060913076

Editeur : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1986

Synopsis

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels

“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner

The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy.

When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Slow Learner (a collection of short stories), Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge, and Shadow Ticket. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006091307X
• ISBN 13: 9780060913076
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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