Thomas Pynchon

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The Crying of Lot 49 (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years "The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes."-The New York Times "The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."-Chicago Tribune "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force."-San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech
• Alle Texte können hinsichtlich Größe, Schriftart und Farbe angepasst werden
• Grundlegende Landmark-Navigation für einfache Orientierung
• Hoher Kontrast zwischen Text und Hintergrund (min. 4.5 =>1)
• Inhalte verständlich ohne Farbwahrnehmung
• Navigierbares Inhaltsverzeichnis für direkten Zugriff auf Text und Medien

Autor

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V.; The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow; Slow Learner, a collection of short stories; Vineland; Mason & Dixon; Against the Day; Inherent Vice; Bleeding Edge; and Shadow Ticket. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 167
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101594605
• Artikelnr.: 44645366

Rezensionen

The best American novel I have read since the war

"A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." - San Francisco Examiner

"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes." - New York Times

"Mr. Pynchon's satirical eye doesn't miss a thing, including rock n' roll singers right wing extremists, and the general subculture of Southern California." - Library Journal

"[A] spectacular tale. . . . The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order is akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses." - Chicago Tribune

"Pynchon is again whispering something in our ear about the meaning of coincidence, the possibility of recurrence in history, and the circularity of time. . . . . The Crying of Lot 49 is one of those mystery novels that can't be solved." - New York Review of Books

"Remarkable. . . . The Crying of Lot 49 resembles metaphysical poetry in the range of its allusions and the curiosity of its creator. Consequently, the book is always surprising." - Washington Post