Crying of Lot 49: A NovelOne of The Atlantics Great American Novels The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.New York Times Thomas Pynchons highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming 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

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“Engaging with politics and social justice issues

“I love this book most of all because it is so mortal

are the great-grandchildren of pioneers

Songs of the Earth (1970)

whose “sensuous language resonates with cosmic urgency” (Columbia Review)

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

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through the collapse of Soviet Communism in the late ‘80s