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[Dave Monroe]

Pynchon's first novel since the formidable Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
more closely resembles his earlier work, especially The Crying of Lot
49 (1966). (In fact Mucho Maas, the ex-husband of Lot 49 's heroine,
reappears in the new book.) Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in
northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture
devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here,
in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for
Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.
Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters,
elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"),
movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story ), and illicit
sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.
). Pynchon fans have waited 17 years for this novel, and they won't be
disappointed. An essential purchase.

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