Vineland

Resumen del libro

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past.
An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd's ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had.

Part daytime drama, part political thriller, Vineland is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future.

Biografía del autor

Thomas Pynchon nació en Nueva York en 1937, y de él sólo se sabe que estudió ingeniería y literatura en la Universidad de Cornell, que redactó folletos técnicos para la compañía Boeing, que envió a un cómico a recoger en su nombre el National Book Award, y que vive en Nueva York. Tusquets Editores ha publicado toda su obra de ficción, compuesta por las novelas Vineland, Un lento aprendizaje, La subasta del lote 49, V., Mason y Dixon, El arco iris de gravedad, Contraluz, Vicio propio y Al límite.