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Jul 27, 2010 · Inherent Vice feels fizzily spontaneous—like a series of jazz solos, scenes, and conversations built around little riffs of language. Does it add up? Maybe. Do you get lost? Lured down a long linguistic dark alley is more like it.
Inherent Vice is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published on August 4, 2009. A darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California, the plot follows sleuth Larry "Doc" Sportello whose ex-girlfriend asks him to investigate a scheme involving a prominent land developer.
Aug 1, 2009 · A noir-psychedelic novel set in 1969 L.A., featuring private eye Doc Sportello and a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer. Read ratings, reviews, genres, book details and author information on Goodreads.
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Aug 20, 2009 · Doc Sportello, the mellow gumshoe hero of Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice” — a psychedelic homage to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler set in the last days of hippie-era Los Angeles, after...
Dec 14, 2011 · Inherent vice. by. Pynchon, Thomas. Publication date. 2009. Topics. Private investigators. Publisher. New York : Penguin Press.
Jul 2, 2021 · English. 369 pages ; 25 cm. Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group. Access-restricted-item. true.
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Aug 4, 2009 · Inherent Vice deepens Pynchon's developing California cycle, following The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland with a shaggy-dog epic of Eden mansionized and Mansonized beyond recognition—yet never quite beyond hope.
