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The crying of lot 49

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Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour,The Crying of Lot 49opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaitingThe Crying of Lot 49.

One of Pynchon's shortest novels and one of his best.

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Vintage Digital
1409044939 / 9781409044932
eBook
813.54
24/11/2009
United Kingdom
English
General
103 pages
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.