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Crying of Lot 49, The
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Overview
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.
"The work of a virtuoso with prose … His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."—Chicago Tribune
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781436111966
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Publish Date: Feb 2008
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrator: George K Wilson
- Duration: 06:17:38