From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> > _Vineland_, from Pynchon, was a real let-down. Not a patch on _M&D_, > Pynchon's other novel from the '90s. Vineland was released on December 20, 1989. It's true, though, that the copyright for Vineland is for the year 1990 and the copyright for M&D is for the year 1997. d.