Inherent Vice

[Dave Monroe]

The On-Sale Calendar: August 2009
-- Publishers Weekly, 4/29/2009 2:36:00 PM

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press, $27.95; ISBN 978-1-59420-224-7).

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6655280.html

The North Wind Summer Top Five
Issue date: 4/23/09 Section: Entertainment
Top five books
By Jeff Frey

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1. "Inherent Vice" August 4
Los Angeles in the 1960s is the setting for Thomas Pynchon's latest
novel, "Inherent Vice," a nearly noir, almost psychedelic story of
private investigator, Doc Sportello. He finds himself wrapped up in an
extravagant plot to kidnap a wealthy land owner, meeting ex-cons,
surfers, hustlers and an undercover tenor sax player among others
along the way. Pynchon illuminates this genre story with his own
brilliantly personal touch.

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