{"product_id":"vineland-9780141180632","title":"Vineland","description":"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, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Robert Musil Story\u003c\/i\u003e), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in \u003ci\u003eV.\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Pynchon is the author of\u003ci\u003e V\u003c\/i\u003e., \u003ci\u003e The Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlow Learner\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInherent Vice, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBleeding Edge. \u003c\/i\u003eHe received the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e in 1974.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50592439468306,"sku":"9780141180632","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c41f26e7-aa5e-4765-832d-9b28e5e91d8c.jpg?v=1732104136","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vineland-9780141180632","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}