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      The Crying of Lot 49

      by Thomas Pynchon
      Published
      Jan 1965
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      152
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      One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

      "The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes."—The New York Times

      "The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."—Chicago Tribune

      "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force."—San Francsisco Examiner

      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.

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