Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture examines Pynchon''s novels in their relation to 1960s counterculture. Much has been made of Pynchon''s ambiguity but in this volume Joanna Freer offers a concrete account of Pynchon''s politics thereby emphasising commentaries within Pynchon''s fiction on the Beats the New Left the Black Panther Party the psychedelic movement and the women''s movement.