Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Angela Buchdahl maybe Liz Taylor--"couldn't keep their

maybe Liz Taylor--"couldn't keep their eyes off

Weaving the familiar with the peculiar

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist

God knows she loves her mum and her eccentric aunts--and who could forget their Christmas Cracker family business

The first time Jimmy read a book the words clung to him like glitter

Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Angela Buchdahl maybe Liz Taylor--"couldn't keep theirBy: Thomas Pynchon Published by Penguin Classics, 1997 09 01 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