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Book Overview
The Crying of Lot 49 is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the '50s and '60s in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays on Thomas Pynchon's important novel, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521388333
ISBN13:9780521388337
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:188 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.2" x 8.7"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Good collection
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Are you writing a paper on *The Crying of Lot 49*? If so, this book will come in handy.
Pynchon is the serpant and we are merely eating his apple!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Thomas Pynchon can fill a book with everything imaginable and still bore you to tears, but on the other hand one page about a banana breakfast and it is in your head for a lifetime. If Jim Morrison didn't die; I certainly believe that Thomas would be a good name for him...
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