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The Crying of Lot 49

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Oedipa Maas arrives home from a party to discover she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. This sets her on a strange trail of detection which leads to a secret postal system of outcasts called W.A.S.T.E. Bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse Oedipa in her search: Dr Hilarius, the sinister face-pulling psychoanalyst; Metzger, the child actor turned lawyer; and the eminent philatelist, Genghis Cohen, who likes sex with the news on. But gradually death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to rob Oedipa of her companions, and she is left in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of Lot 49. Pynchon's work has been compared to Joyce, Beckett, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut, and carries the same brand of rich satire, chaotic brilliance and wild humour.

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The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

Idioma
Publicado en
1974
Encuadernación
(Tapa blanda),
Estado del libro
Bueno
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75,99 €

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Título
The Crying of Lot 49
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Penguin Books
Publicado en
1974
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
139
ISBN10
0140037330
ISBN13
9780140037333
Serie
Descripción
Oedipa Maas arrives home from a party to discover she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. This sets her on a strange trail of detection which leads to a secret postal system of outcasts called W.A.S.T.E. Bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse Oedipa in her search: Dr Hilarius, the sinister face-pulling psychoanalyst; Metzger, the child actor turned lawyer; and the eminent philatelist, Genghis Cohen, who likes sex with the news on. But gradually death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to rob Oedipa of her companions, and she is left in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the crying of Lot 49. Pynchon's work has been compared to Joyce, Beckett, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut, and carries the same brand of rich satire, chaotic brilliance and wild humour.