Book DetailsCountry: USA
Language: English
Genre: Postmodern Fiction
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Publication Date: 1966
Fictional Artist:
Artist: The Paranoids, Sick Dik and the Volkswagens
Genre: Pop, Rock
Country: USA
Real World Analogue: The Paranoids are a US group that sing in English accents and are clearly modeled after the Beatles. However, the performers of the Beatles pastiche, I Want To Kiss Your Feet, Sik Dik and the Volkswagens are named for 50s doo-wop groups such as the El Dorados, the Edsels and the Cadillacs.
Jacket Blurb:
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting The Crying of Lot 49.
One of Pynchon's shortest novels and one of his best.
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