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The Crying of Lot 49

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Pub Date Jun 13 2012 | Archive Date Feb 26 2013

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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times

“The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune

“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner

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.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times

“The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate...
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ISBN 9781101594605
PRICE $8.99 (USD)

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