Inherent Vice

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Could the wealthy landowner be Pierce Inverarity?

LK

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>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 1, 2009 11:00 AM
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>Subject: Inherent Vice
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>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).
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>http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6655280.html
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>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.
>
>http://media.www.thenorthwindonline.com/media/storage/paper1202/news/2009/04/23/Entertainment/The-North.Wind.Summer.Top.Five-3723600.shtml