The Crying of Lot 49

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • 1960s
  • administration of estates
  • administration successorale
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • california, fiction
  • e436 .m87
  • femmes mariées
  • fiction
  • fictional works [publication type]
  • fiction in english
  • greek epic poetry
  • long now manual for civilization
  • married people, fiction
  • married women
  • odyssea
  • odysseus (greek mythology)
  • open library staff picks
  • open_syllabus_project
  • poetry
  • politics and government
  • posthorn
  • psychedelia
  • romans, nouvelles
  • translations into english
  • trystero
  • united states. congress (36th, 1st session : 1859-1861). house.
  • women