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The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon
George K Wilson
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The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge. "The work of a virtuoso with prose ... His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."—Chicago Tribune
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Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781470328863
  • File size: 181480 KB
  • Release date: September 1, 2012
  • Duration: 06:18:04

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  • ISBN: 9781470328863
  • File size: 181850 KB
  • Release date: September 1, 2012
  • Duration: 06:18:02
  • Number of parts: 6
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Fiction Literature

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English

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Lexile® Measure:1060
Text Difficulty:6-9

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge. "The work of a virtuoso with prose ... His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."—Chicago Tribune
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