Pynchon's California /
McClintock, Scott,editor.
Miller, John,1959 July 2-editor.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
Introduction: surveying Pynchon's California / Scott McClintock and John Miller -- Situated fictions: reading the California novels against Thomas Pynchon's narrative world / Margaret Lynd -- Life on the beach: the natural elements in Thomas Pynchon's California trilogy / Hanjo Berressem -- Pynchon's coast: Inherent vice and the twilight of the spatially specific / Bill Millard -- The origins of the family, private property, and the state of California in Pynchon's fiction / Scott McClintock -- Playgrounds of detection: the Californian private eye in Thomas Punchon's The crying of lot 49 and Inherent vice / Scott Macleod -- Profane illuminations: postmodernism, realism, and the Holytail marijuana crop in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland / Henry Veggian -- Postmodern sacrality and Inherent vice / Christopher K. Coffman -- Reading, resistance, and the California turn in Pynchon's cornucopian fiction / John Miller -- Maybe he'd have to just keep driving, or Pynchon the freeway / Stephen Hock.
Pynchon, Thomas