The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

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Book name:	The Crying of Lot 49 (2024)
Category:	Fiction
Author:	Thomas Pynchon
Pages:	152 pages
ISBN13:	006091307X
ISBN:	006091307X
Language:	English
Publication data:	Nov. 7, 2006, 8 a.m.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness, and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.

About the author

Thomas Pynchon

8 books

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the … Read more