The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)

Pynchon, Thomas

ISBN 10: 006091307X / ISBN 13: 9780060913076

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006091307X
• ISBN 13: 9780060913076
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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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.

About the Author

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.