Vineland underrated

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org>
>Vineland IMLWO is a novel [...] where the betrayal is occasioned by the 
>daughter of a strong labour movement/socialist family tradition taking up 
>with and working for the (capitalist) Establishment. The novel ends with 
>the annual gathering of that family, taking the prodigal back into its 
>warmth, thereby reasserting the communal values of the Wobblies and their 
>descendants.

The description above sound like a boring and simplistic morality tale to 
me.  That is ain't the Pynchon I'm used to.  He's all about ambiguity and 
paradox IMHO, but this ain't his best work, so...

Ghetta

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