The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1999, Paperback) 
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1999, Paperback)

 
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1999, Paperback)

Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Series: Perennial Classics
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0060931671
ISBN-13: 9780060931674
Product ID: EPID20298
Description: Oedipa Maas is made the executor of the estate of her late boyfriend Pierce Inverarity--including his enormous stamp collection. As she carries out her duties, Oedipa meets some extremely interesting characters and is enmeshed in what ap...
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Synopsis
Oedipa Maas is made the executor of the estate of her late boyfriend Pierce Inverarity--including his enormous stamp collection. As she carries out her duties, Oedipa meets some extremely interesting characters and is enmeshed in what appears to be a worldwide conspiracy. Considered to be one of Thomas Pynchon's more "accessible" works, THE CRYING OF LOT 49 is nevertheless full of his perennial trademarks: puns and other language play (e.g. characters named Manny DiPresso and Genghis Cohen), the possible evils of science and its accompanying rationality, and the chaotic state of modern culture.

Details
Publication Date:1999-04-01
Series:Perennial Classics

Size
Length:152 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:5.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Pynchon's highly original take on the apocalypse (southern California-style) is both a critical and popular triumph, now printed with an updated author biography and history of the book's publication.

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.

Industry Reviews
"Thomas Pynchon's second novel, 'The Crying of Lot 49', reads like an episode withheld from his first, the much-acclaimed 'V.', published three years ago. Pynchon's technical virtuosity, his adaptations of the apocalyptic-satiric modes of Melville, Conrad, and Joyce, of Faulkner, Nathanael West, and Nabokov, the saturnalian inventiveness he shares with contemporaries like John Barth and Joseph Heller, his security with philosophical and psychological concepts, his anthropological intimacy with the off-beat--these evidences of extraordinary talent in the first novel continue to display themselves in the second. And the uses to which he puts them are very much the same."
New York Times Book Review - Richard Poirier (05/01/1966)

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