The crying of lot 49

Alternate Titles

• Crying of lot forty-nine.

Description

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.

First Sentence

ONE summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.

Description

After learning that she is the executor of her ex-lover's will, Oedipa Maas starts a strange journey through Southern California in the 1960s.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Perennial fiction library

Other Editions

• The crying of lot 49HardcoverPerennial Library2006-01-01
• The crying of Lot 49Lippincott1966-01-01
• The crying of lot 49Lippincott1966-01-01
• The Crying of Lot 49J. B. Lippincott1966-01-01
• The crying of Lot 49Penguin1974-01-01
• The crying of lot 49PaperbackBantam Books1982-01-01