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Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's reelection.
Jan 1, 2001 · Thomas Pynchon. A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die.
Sep 1, 1997 · Paperback – September 1, 1997. by Thomas Pynchon (Author) 4.3 315 ratings. See all formats and editions. Vineland, 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.
- Thomas Pynchon
Mar 10, 2023 · Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. Publication date 1990 Publisher Little, Brown and Company Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language
Complete summary of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Vineland.
Vineland, 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,...
Jun 13, 2012 · On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” still...
Jun 13, 2012 · On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” still struggling with the consequences of their past lives.
- Thomas Pynchon
Jan 1, 1990 · Ex-hippie and unemployed FBI sting specialist Frenesi Gates must confront her past when former commune-mates start disappearing and an old lover turns up after fifteen years. Print length. 384 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Little Brown. Publication date. January 1, 1990. ISBN-10. 9780316724449.
- Thomas Pynchon
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.).
- Thomas Pynchon
Feb 10, 2012 · Thomas Pynchon. Publication date. 1991. Topics. California, Northern -- Fiction. Publisher. Penguin Books. Collection.
May 25, 2015 · This is the wiki for Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. Besides using the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at Vineland covers, read the reviews, or provide insights or observations.
Nov 17, 2014 · Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern tale of life in the 1980's United States. Its central locale is Vineland, California, a fictional small town in California's Anderson Valley (perhaps based upon Boonville, California).
Thomas Pynchon, like Paul Simon's girl in New York City, who calls herself the Human Trampoline, is bouncing into Graceland. It's 1984 in Vineland County, in northern California. Dates...
Feb 1, 1991 · Thomas Pynchon. Vineland Paperback – February 1, 1991. by Thomas Pynchon (Author) 4.3 318 ratings. See all formats and editions. Seventeen years after he shocked and dazzled readers with Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon returns with a novel as astonishing, as kaleidoscopic, as funny, and as satisfying as that legendary work.
- Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon is regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Vineland Characters - eNotes.com. by Thomas Pynchon. The Characters. PDF Cite. Frenesi Gates is among the most fully developed and interesting characters in all of Pynchon’s work.
Sep 1, 2021 · Pynchon, Thomas. Publication date. 1990. Topics. California, Northern -- Fiction. Publisher. Boston : Little, Brown. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Vineland spans from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The novel covers the paranoia of the Nixon years, the end of the hippie movement, the birth of Reaganite politics and the main themes are the corrupting influence of power and the death of idealism.
Feb 1, 1990 · A red-diaper baby and radical film-maker during the rebellion-charged 60's, Frenesi sold her soul to a man in uniform, the quintessential Nixon-Reagan fascist, Brock Vond, a fed whose manic pursuit of lefties and dopers finds him abusing civil rights over three decades.
