Inherent Vice Cover

[JD]

I actually kind of like that.  It looks like the cover on a Chrisopher Pike
thriller for junior high kids or otherwise some trashy pulp horror book
picked up at a roadside convenience store to read at the beach because you
forgot your stash at home.

Also, the car sure looks like Ecto-1 from Ghost Busters.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:30 PM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> Looks like the cover is very "Vineland," the "Inherent Vice" of the
> car-as-rocket fantasy, of the illusion of flight and freedom given
> by the car and L.A.'s car culture of the '60's. Remembering Zoyd
> talking about surfer's car culture ties the cover to Zoyd, at least in
> my mind. And the excerpt sounds like slightly overheated Lew Archer
> excepting during the overheating which is ultra-Firesign Theater.
>
> The cover is on page 28.
>
> http://booksellers.penguin.com/static/pdf/penguinpress-summer09.pdf
>
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