Vineland

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Beschreibung

<p><b>Thomas Pynchon's wretchedly funny dystopian thriller, sending up the end days of America's countercultural dream</b></p><p>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.</p><p>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 <i>V</i>.), <i>Vineland</i> is vintage Pynchon.</p><p><b>'That rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years' Salman Rushdie </b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780749391416

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd