{"product_id":"9780749391416","title":"Vineland","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Pynchon, Thomas \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 May 1992 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 132 x 26 | 284g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ('Floozy with an Uzi'), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55915076747650,"sku":"9780749391416","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780749391416.jpg?v=1762171954","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9780749391416","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}