The Crying of Lot 49 - Couverture rigide

Pynchon, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1568493207 ISBN 13 : 9781568493206

Editeur : Buccaneer Books, 1997

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas 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.

One of Pynchon's shortest novels and one of his best.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Buccaneer Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1568493207
• ISBN 13: 9781568493206
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 183