num_pages: 385
description: 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.).
language: English
title: Vineland
titlecomplete: Vineland
characters: Frenesi Gates, Prairie, Hector Zuñiga, Zoyd Wheeler, Brock Vond
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 11423
places: California
publisher: Vintage Classics