The Crying of Lot 49 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (Picador Books) (Perennial Classics)

by Thomas Pynchon

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.

• ISBN10: 006091307X
• ISBN13: 9780060913076
• Publish Date: 1 October 2006 (first published 12 October 1979)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperPerennial
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 183
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

I've heard that this is the most accessible of Pynchon's novels, and we'll soon see; I'm diving right into V.

Oh, and like a true hallucinogen-- if you read yourself to sleep on this book, as I did one night, well, get ready for some crazy paranoid dreams.