Cover of The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

1965 · adult

Set in 2 places · 2 primary
Sense of Place
3/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

Oedipa Maas, executor of the will of Pierce Inverarity, journeys through a bizarre underground of secret societies, jazz clubs, beatniks, and her own psyche. Readers accustomed to postmodern literature will revel in Pynchon's second novel.

Set in

  • California · United States
    paranoid California road trip
    ★ primary
  • San Francisco · United States
    Bay Area postmodern conspiracy
    ★ primary

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