The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

1996
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-0-09-953261-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Oedipa Maas has been made executrix of her 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 Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of lot 49.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 is by far the shortest of Pynchon’s great, dazzling novels – and one of his most iconic.

‘The best American novel I have read since the war’ Frank Kermode

‘Remarkable... The Crying of Lot 49 resembles metaphysical poetry in the range of its allusions and the curiosity of its creator’ Washington Post

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 and Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	128 x 196 mm
Gewicht	119 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-953261-1 / 0099532611
ISBN-13	978-0-09-953261-3 / 9780099532613
Zustand	Neuware