{"product_id":"crying-of-lot-49-9780063289529","title":"Crying of Lot 49","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Pynchon's highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming international conspiracy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters--including a teenage rock band called the Paranoids, a right-wing historian and critic of the postal system, and a former child actor with whom she has an affair--and begins to unravel conspiracies she suddenly sees all around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1966, \u003cem\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the piquant wit and power of invention that are the hallmarks of Pynchon's acclaimed works. It is the shortest of his novels, and widely held to be the benchmark of this literary lion's career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063289529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Thomas Pynchon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729508765877,"sku":"9780063289529","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2d897d59-b2db-42d1-91bd-a4b94c3db2ef.jpg?v=1675802904","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/crying-of-lot-49-9780063289529","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}