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999			_c34370 _d34370
008			250728b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780141180632
082			_a813.54 _bPYN
100			_aPynchon, Thomas
245			_aVineland
260			_bPenguin Books, _c1997. _aNew York :
300			_a385 p. ; _c22 cm
365			_b1650.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
520			_aA 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
650			_a1900-1999
650			_a20th Century
650			_aAmerican Literature
942			_2ddc _cBK