Inherent Vice Review in the Guardian UK

[Robin Landseadel]

The best thought out and longest review so far:

	There are more quests than answers

	Through a fug of dope, Thomas Pynchon takes his cast of
	misfits to the end of a loose, quixotic trilogy, says Sarah
	 Churchwell

	In Thomas Pynchon's 1973 book, Gravity's Rainbow, a
	character sings a song called "My Doper's Cadenza", which
	could serve as both soundtrack and subtitle for Inherent Vice.
	Set in the waning days of the era of free love, as Charles
	Manson brings a paranoid ending to quixotic dreams,
	Pynchon's seventh novel bridges The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
	and Vineland (1990), forming a loose trilogy traversed by the
	same (marginal) characters and (central) concerns, not to
	mention a permeating 60s dope haze. In all three novels,
	California represents the final frontier of the American Dream
	and the last stand against corrupt institutions, the ultimate 	
	refuge of aimless dreamers riding waves of hope – and fear.
	Together, the three novels trace an arc from the mid-1960s to
	the Reaganite 1980s, from the birth of counterculture to the
	triumph of corporate culture, as the frontier closes for good and
	the long descent into betrayal and greed begins. . .

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/26/pynchon-churchwell-inherent-vice