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Vineland
Door Thomas Pynchon
Categorie | Engels |
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Boeknummer | #349188-VE41 |
Titel | Vineland |
Auteur | Pynchon, Thomas |
Boektype | Paperback |
Uitgeverij | Minerva |
Jaar van uitgave | 1996 |
ISBN10 | 0749391413 |
ISBN13 | 9780749391416 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Paperback, 8vo. |
Samenvatting | Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.). Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil St... (Lees verder)ory), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.). |
Pagina's | 385 |
Conditie | Goed — Edges book block yellowed; bottom cut stained. |
Prijs | € 8,00 |
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