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Title:
Inherent vice / Thomas Pynchon.
Author:
Pynchon, Thomas, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2014.

©2009
Call Number:
CRIME / MYSTERY PYNCHON 2014
Abstract:
It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists.
Edition:
[Movie-tie-in edition].
ISBN:
9780143126850
Physical Description:
369 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover.
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