A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

Zusatztext Vintage edition of Thomas Pynchon's second novel. Oedipa Maas is made executorof a former lover's estate. Her duties set her on a strange trail of detection. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 and, most recently, Against the Day . He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974. Zusammenfassung 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.

Vorwort
A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

Autorentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
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.