The Crying of Lot 49 (Magill Book Reviews)

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Oedipa Maas, a California housewife called on to execute the will of her former lover, the tycoon Pierce Inverarity, discovers that the estate seems consciously designed to reveal an extraordinary pattern to her. She discovers a secret: a centuries-old mail delivery system called Trystero that subsumes every conceivable pocket of disaffection in the new world--from disgruntled aerospace workers to Mexican revolutionaries to AC/DC, the Alameda County Death Cult. The more she investigates, the more evidence she finds that Trystero is everywhere, an unnoticed but terrifying presence in a...

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