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Pynchon Thomas
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Fiction
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2015
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Seuil
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French
β 296 KB
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Vineland
β Scribed by Pynchon, Thomas
- Book ID
- 107786866
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101594636
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β¦ Synopsis
"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . ." On California's fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the "Nixonian Reaction," still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches that his old nemesis, sinister federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed Justice Department strike force. Zoyd instantly disappears underground, but not before dispatching his teenage daughter Prairie on a dark odyssey into her secret, unspeakable past. . . .
Freely combining disparate elements from American popular culture--spy thrillers, ninja potboilers, TV soap operas, sci-fi fantasies--Vineland emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in The New York Times Book Review "that rarest of birds: a major political...
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A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity