by Thomas Pynchon · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788411076500
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In Vineland, a fictional Californian region, a group of people try to survive by dealing with the aftermath of their lives in the sixties. In 1984, Prairie, a young woman, searches for her mother, Frenesi, a legendary figure of the radical movements of the late sixties. Unbeknownst to Prairie, Frenesi has just lost her job at the FBI and has become the target of Brock Vond, a former lover. He arrives in California determined to end the community that Frenesi led in the past. Prairie is determined to discover the plot surrounding her mother, who is now the object of Brock's wrath.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to history, art, science, and popular culture. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive. Few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s.
