PublishedVintage Books, May 1992 |
ISBN9780749391416 |
FormatSoftcover, 400 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 13cm × 2.5cm |
'Exhilarating and wretchedly funny. The most important and mysterious writer of his generation' - Time
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 Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).
