Vineland (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: Northern California
- Principal Characters: Zoyd Wheeler, Prairie, Frenesi Gates, Brock Vond, DL Chastain, Hub, Hector Zuñiga
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Police, Protests or demonstrations, 1980’s, California, West, U.S., Drug trafficking or dealing, Law enforcement, Hippies
- Locales: California
The Novel
Zoyd Wheeler has been living a quiet life in Vineland, a fictitious town in Northern California, with his daughter Prairie. Zoyd does odd jobs for neighbors, grows marijuana, and collects a government pension for committing a crazy act every year: specifically, for throwing himself through a plate-glass window in a local restaurant in front of television cameras. Prairie works in a local health-food pizza parlor and hangs out with a rock band, Billy Barf and the Vomitones.
Things are changing at the novel’s beginning. The site of Zoyd’s annual fling is...
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