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Vineland
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
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 '60s 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 sports car scene in V.).
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- steven
- 21-05-23
Less than the sum of its very Pynchon parts
I feel Vineland has all the elements you expect from Pynchon: quirk, interesting characters, a little conspiracy and Americana combined — just none in their best iteration for him.
The narrator also fits well, but I can’t say I find his voice enjoyable to listen to, so that was another just-off-the-mark element that left me unfulfilled.
All that said, it is still a quality novel compared to 99.99% of modern fiction — I think I just had higher expectations.
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