The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)

One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international 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. — ASIN: 006091307X | ISBN13: 9780060913076 | ISBN-13: 978-0060913076