Vineland
Pynchon, Thomas
Vineland - New York : Penguin Books, 1997. - 385 p. ; 22 cm - Penguin Classics .
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 (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past. An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd's ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had. Part daytime drama, part political thriller, [this novel] is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future
9780141180632
1900-1999
20th Century
American Literature
813.54 / PYN
Vineland - New York : Penguin Books, 1997. - 385 p. ; 22 cm - Penguin Classics .
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 (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past. An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd's ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had. Part daytime drama, part political thriller, [this novel] is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future
9780141180632
1900-1999
20th Century
American Literature
813.54 / PYN