Vineland (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Pynchon
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1984
- Setting: California
- Principal Characters: Prairie Wheeler, Zoyd Wheeler, Frenesi Margaret Gates, Darryl Lolise (dl) Chastain, Takeshi Fumimota, Brock Vond, Rector Zuniga
- 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 mere release of Thomas Pynchon’s Vine/and on December 20, 1989, qualified it for serious consideration as the most eagerly awaited novel of the 1980’s. For more than ten years the author’s devotees had wondered just how he would build upon the three works of fiction—V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)—that had established him as one of the great prose artists of the post-World War II era. Speculation intensified after a 1989 Little, Brown announcement heralded the arrival of the new novel, reaching a still higher pitch...
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