The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Paperback Book

Description: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance- trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers on the horizon like a mirage. Pynchons shortest novel, and one of his best. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon.By far the shortest of Pynchons great, dazzling novels - and one of the best.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 lovers 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.Engineered like a rocket Ned Beauman, IndependentThe best book to start with Guardian Notes Vintage edition of Thomas Pynchons second novel. Oedipa Maas is made executor of a former lovers estate. Her duties set her on a strange trail of detection. Author Biography Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravitys 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 Gravitys Rainbow in 1974. Review The best American novel I have read since the warFor 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 *The narrator sounds like a survivor looking through the massed wreckage of his civilization, a salad of despair. That image, to suggest but one of the puns in the word Tristero, is typically full of sadness, terror, love, and flamboyance. But then, how else should one imagine a tryst with America? And that is what this novel is. * New York Times *A book of thundering originality and depth and lyricism, a book with the highest intellectual aspirations - and yet it also seemed to be concerned with creating genuine suspense -- Ned Beauman * Independent * Promotional A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. Kirkus UK Review This surreal take on southern Californian subculture follows the fortunes of heiress Oedipa Maas. Her quest to find the truth about her inheritance, and to discover what motivated her deceased lover, sets her on a trail of vague clues which leads her into a web of international conspiracy. With his usual satire and wit, Pynchon depicts a kind of apocalypse which only he could imagine. Following on from V, this is a highly original book packed with sharply drawn characters. A 20th-century classic. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review Whether you were with it or not, Pynchons first novel V. had some prodigally exciting sequences to startle the most phlegmatic imagination. Here, however, his narrative verve has shrivelled into sheer bizarrerie. So much of it is not only unidentifiable but also unintelligible - its not to be read as much as deciphered. The third chapter opens with "Things then did not delay in turning curious" but it has been prefaced with all kinds of Happenings after Mrs. Oedipa Maas leaves her husband Mucho. Hes a disc jockey spooked by his dream of the car lot where he had once worked. She spends a night with a lawyer in a motel, playing Strip Botticelli in front of the tube. And from then on Oedipas search, in fluid drive up and down the freeways, to the Yoyodyne electronics factory in San Narciso, into a strange society called The Tristero and for the answer to a reappearing symbol - W.A.S.T.E., back to her psychiatrist Dr. Hilarius, and to Mucho who now knows the answer to the "crying" of the lot (its N.A.D.A.) - oh well, this is all a dizzying exposure to what is presumably a satire of contemporary society and its fluor-essence, Southern California... Pynchons accessories include names (Driblette; Koteks; Genghis Cohen); props (feeding "eggplant sandwiches to not too bright seagulls"); insets (a long Jacobean play) and in jokes... HELP! Even the Beatles cant and they suggest the singing group called the Paranoids. Somehow it seems as if a genuine talent had reduced itself to automated kookiness. Hip, yes; hooray, no. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text The best American novel I have read since the war Review Quote The best American novel I have read since the war Promotional "Headline" A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. Details ISBN0099532611 Author Thomas Pynchon ISBN-10 0099532611 ISBN-13 9780099532613 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Short Title CRYING OF LOT 49 Tag vintageclassics Residence US Series Vintage Books Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 1996 Pages 160 Publication Date 1996-06-06 UK Release Date 1996-06-06 AU Release Date 1996-06-06 NZ Release Date 1996-06-06 Translator Olga Meerson Birth 2020 Affiliation Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications QC Audience General Alternative 9781784701208 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:122359;

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