Vineland plot summary? (etc: spoilers?)

[Evan M Corcoran]

> What a downer!  Is there anybody in the 1984-era scenes who has any
> sense of creating a better world?  Who hasn't surrendered to forces
> beyond their understanding, beyond all hope of change???

No.  Vineland is bleak and hopeless.  Like America herself, beneath 
the wacky glitz there is a great hollowness.  In his other books
there was always something to be found - V. was an actual woman, 
WASTE left tangible evidence, the S-gerat was in a rocket.  But
in Vineland, there's nothing there.  

"...thinking he was home."

 -EMC