By far the shortest of Pynchon's 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 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.
'Engineered like a rocket' Ned Beauman, Independent
'The best book to start with' Guardian
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Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
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.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. By far the shortest of Pynchon's 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 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. 'Engineered like a rocket' Ned Beauman, Independent 'The best book to start with' Guardian. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR001268524
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paperback. Zustand: Gut. 126 Seiten / p. Aufkleber auf Cover, papierbedingt gebräunt, minimal eselsohrig, sonst tadelloser Zustand / Sticker on cover, browned due to paper, minimally dog-eared, otherwise impeccable condition - chapter one: One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsc in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary. Oedipa stood in the living-room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel as drunk as possible. But this did not work. She thought of a hotel room in Mazatlan whose door had just been slammed, it seemed forever, waking up two hundred birds down in the lobby; a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west; a dry, disconsolate tune from the fourth movement of the Bartdk Concerto for Orchestra; a whitewashed bust of Jay Gould that Pierce kept over the bed on a shelf so narrow for it she'd always had the hovering fear it would someday topple on them. Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only icon in the house? That only made her laugh, out loud and helpless: You're so sick, Oedipa, she told herself, or the room, which knew. ISBN 9780099532613 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 132. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1232485
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Zustand: New. 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.A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5889553
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Hausfrau Oedipa Maas wird zur Testamentsvollstreckerin ihres ehemaligen Liebhabers bestimmt, des Immobilienspekulanten Pierce Inverarity. Sie macht sich auf den Weg durch Kalifornien und versucht herauszufinden, wer Pierce Inverarity war, wer sie selbst und was Amerika ist, und lernt dabei eine andere Welt als ihre bisherige kennen, die völlig anderen Regeln folgt. Umgeben von Ausgeflippten, Isolierten und Verstörten, die von der Welt ausgeschieden worden sind wie Abfall, scheint Oedipa einer jahrhundertealten Gegenverschwörung auf die Spur zu kommen. Oder ist alles nur eine Fiktion, ein Wahn. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780099532613
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