"A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force." -- San Francisco ExaminerThe Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international 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.
"Llegó antes de la fecha estipulada, gran servicio el de buscalibre. Y este libro es un gran lugar para comenzar a leer a Pynchon, no es tan extenso y tiene muchos de los elementos que nos hacen amar a este gran autor. Otro buen lugar para comenzar es Inherent Vice, muuuy divertido, loco y extremadamente bien escrito. Y mucho mejor sí leen a Pynchon en inglés. "