A puzzle an intrigue a literary and historical tour de force. -- San Francisco Examiner The
Crying of Lot 49 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. 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.
