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.
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.
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Thomas Pynchon is an American novelist whose work emerged from the scientific, military, and cultural currents of the mid-twentieth century. Born in 1937 on Long Island, New York, he grew up in the shadow of World War II and the early Cold War, environments that would later shape...
10 books in catalog
Thomas Pynchon is an American novelist whose work emerged from the scientific, military, and cultural currents of the mid-twentieth century. Born in 1937 on Long Island, New York, he grew up in the shadow of World War II and the early Cold War, environments that would later shape...
