Books of the year, the Telegraph

[Robin Landseadel]

	Mark Sanderson

	Thomas Pynchon is on great form in Inherent Vice (Jonathan
	Cape), a phantasmagorical, typically paranoid, take on the
	private eye genre. More hare-brained than hard-boiled, it plays
	a game of cherchez la femme among Californian surfers as the
	idealism of the 1960s gives way to the cynical 1970s.

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