Thomas Pynchon Vineland review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1990 van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over Vineland het boek van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Thomas Pynchon. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is alleen nog tweede hands verkrijgbaar.
Thomas Pynchon Vineland review en recensie
- “A major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years…One of America’s great writers has, after long wanderings down his uncharted roads, come triumphantly home.” (Salman Rushdie, New York Times Book Review)
- “How this book towers…it is a political novel in the ambitious, exuberant, powerfully serious mode of The Satanic Verses..It is funny, very funny.” (Fay Weldon)
- “Vintage stuff – funny, fantastically inventive, packed with improbable erudition” (Times Literary Supplement)
- “His descriptive powers are breathtaking… Pynchon proves once again to be the master of what might be called the highbrow conspiracy thriller.” (Wall Street Journal)
Vineland
- Auteur: Thomas Pynchon (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse politieke roman uit 1990
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics
- Omvang: 400 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: £ 10,99
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1990 van Thomas Pynchon
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 The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).
De speelfilm One Battle After Another uit 2025 van regisseur Paul Thomas Anderson is gebaseerd op de roman, zij het in beperkte mate.
Thomas Pynchon is born on 8 May 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. Pynchon is often noted for his complex works of postmodern fiction, which are often characterized by dense 
references to history, popular culture, literature, music, science, and mathematics, as well as by humor and explorations of paranoia. He is the author of the novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. Also he wrote Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, published in 1984. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.