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A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past. An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd's ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had. Part daytime drama, part political thriller, Vineland is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780141180632
  • ISBN-10: 0141180633
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
  • Publish Date: September 1997
  • Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 400
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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