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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.“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” - San Francisco ExaminerSuffused 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 Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49."The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of James Joyce's Ulysses." -Chicago Tribune Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (196

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Author
Pynchon, Thomas
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9780062334411
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
Rating
3.7 / 5 (49,512 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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