The Crying of Lot 49
★ 3.8 avg
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About this book
Oedipa Maas, executor of the will of Pierce Inverarity, journeys through a bizarre underground of secret societies, jazz clubs, beatniks, and her own psyche. Readers accustomed to postmodern literature will revel in Pynchon's second novel.
Reader Profile
3.8/5 · 359 readers · 187 pages · ≈ 3 h 28 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read The Crying of Lot 49?
About ≈ 3 h 28 m — 187 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Crying of Lot 49?
187 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Crying of Lot 49?
It sits on the Poetry, Fiction shelves.
Is The Crying of Lot 49 in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does The Crying of Lot 49 take place?
It is set in California.
Who wrote The Crying of Lot 49?
Thomas Pynchon.
Setting
California
“ONE summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job”