Crying of Lot 49 The

Thomas Pynchon''s classic post-modern satire which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas first published in 1965.When her ex-lover wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity dies and designates her the co-executor of his estate California housewife Oedipa Mass 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 and attains a not-inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.