It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy', except that this one usually leads to trouble. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. Read the cult classic behind the major new film s tarring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. "Big, mysterious and absolutely fascinating," as the jacket blurb says.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Thomas Pynchon's first novel, published in 1963, introduced The World to Pynchon's World. Pynchon's second novel, published in 1966, is often recommended as a good entré to his work, as it comes in under 200 pages, yet contains many of the hallmarks of his fiction. Pynchon's third novel, published in 1973, is "literally indescribable, a tortured cadenza of lurid imaginings and total recall that goes on longer than you can quite believe" said the New York Times, i.e., a masterpiece. Coraghessan Boyle put it, "This is the old Pynchon, the true Pynchon, the best Pynchon of all."Īfter the big wait came Pynchon's fourth novel, in 1990, and has come to be viewed as part of a California Trilogy (with The Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice. Pynchon's fifth novel, published in 1997, was critically acclaimed and hailed as a return to form or, as T. Its 1085 pages follow the Chums of Chance and many others in, around and through the world as only Pynchon can imagine it. Pynchon's sixth novel, published in 2006, is amazing. Set in 1970, it foreshadows the Internet and the loss of privacy. Doc Sportello, the hippie/detective protagonist, confronts the Death of the 60s and the reassertion of Control by the powers that be. Pynchon's seventh novel, published in 2009, is described as Psychedelic Noir, but it's much more. Perhaps a Detective Thriller but, honestly, that simply does not begin to capture this journey into the Heart of the Beast. Pynchon's eighth novel, published in 2013, begins on the first day of Spring 2001, in the aftermath of the dotcom crash and just prior to the events of September 11, 2001.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |