The Crying of Lot 49

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THE CRYING OF LOT 49
by THOMAS PYNCHON
'The best American novel I have read since the war'
FRANK KERMODE
'One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a tupperware party
whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she,
Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one
Pierce Inverarity, a California real-estate mogul who had once lost two million
dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to
make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary '
The death of her ex-lover sets Oedipa on a trail of delirious weirdness which
leads from her husband, Mucho Mass (who is fond of Sick Dick and the
Volkswagens, but doesn't believe in them), through Dr Hilarius, Freudian shrink
and ex-Buchenwald intern ('If I'd been a real Nazi, I'd have chosen Jung, nicht
wahr?'), the bizarre postal network of outcasts called W.A.S.T.E, Genghis
Cohen, the most eminent philatelist in L. A.,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE CRYING OF LOT 49
by THOMAS PYNCHON
'The best American novel I have read since the war'
FRANK KERMODE
'One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a tupperware party
whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she,
Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one
Pierce Inverarity, a California real-estate mogul who had once lost two million
dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to
make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary '
The death of her ex-lover sets Oedipa on a trail of delirious weirdness which
leads from her husband, Mucho Mass (who is fond of Sick Dick and the
Volkswagens, but doesn't believe in them), through Dr Hilarius, Freudian shrink
and ex-Buchenwald intern ('If I'd been a real Nazi, I'd have chosen Jung, nicht
wahr?'), the bizarre postal network of outcasts called W.A.S.T.E, Genghis
Cohen, the most eminent philatelist in L. A., Yoyodyne Inc. ('High above the LA.
freeways/And the traffic's whine/Stands the well-known Galactronics/Branch of
Yoyodyne'), not to mention Randolph Driblette and Messrs Warpe, Wistfull,
Kubitschek and McMingus, Attorneys
Until, finally, Oedipa stands alone, awaiting the final revelation - the Crying of
Lot 49.
'An exuberant, off-beat talent This strange writer indulges us to the extent of
being wildly funny, but the comedy is as black and turbulent as storm-clouds'
NORMAN SHRAPNEL, THE GUARDIAN
'For the reader who has yet to make acquaintance with this important comic
talent an appropriate introduction defiandy, purposefully outrageous'
SPECTATOR
Also by Pynchon in Picador: V and GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
Cover illustration by Candy Amsden Vissza