Crying of Lot 49

<p><strong>A puzzle an intrigue a literary and historical tour de force. -- <em>San Francisco Examiner</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>The Crying of Lot 49</em> is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America about Oedipa Maas a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy.</strong></p><p>When her ex-lover wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors symbols and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California she meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.</p>