EPISODE · Feb 15, 2008 · 6H 19M
The Crying of Lot 49 : Thomas Pynchon
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crying of Lot 49 Author: Thomas Pynchon Narrator: George K Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.“The work of a virtuoso with prose … His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crying of Lot 49 Author: Thomas Pynchon Narrator: George K Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 15, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.“The work of a virtuoso with prose … His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune
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