The Crying of Lot 49 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crying of Lot 49 write by Thomas Pynchon. This book was released on 2012-06-13. The Crying of Lot 49 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times “The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide 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.
New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49
New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 write by Patrick O'Donnell. This book was released on 1991. New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Crying of Lot 49 is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the '50s and '60s in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays on Thomas Pynchon's important novel, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine the novel's "semiotic regime" or the way in which it organizes signs; the comparison of postmodernist Pynchon and the influential South American writer, Jorge Luis Borges; metaphor in the novel; the novel's narrative strategies; and the novel within the cultural contexts of American Puritanism and the Beat movement. Together, these essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical, and scientific contexts.
Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inherent Vice write by Thomas Pynchon. This book was released on 2012-06-13. Inherent Vice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The funniest book Pynchon has written." — Rolling Stone "Entertainment of a high order." - Time Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.
A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49
A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 write by J. Kerry Grant. This book was released on 2008. A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the "2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics", the "1986 Harper Perennial Library", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.
Slow Learner
Slow Learner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slow Learner write by Thomas Pynchon. This book was released on 2012-06-13. Slow Learner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers." - New Republic "Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness." - New York Times Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon’s writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are “The Small Rain,” “Low-lands,” “Entropy,” “Under the Rose,” and “The Secret Integration,” along with an introduction by Pynchon himself that Time magazine calls his "first public gesture toward autobiography."
