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VinelandVineland, 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

cultural and moral issues that they provoke

and that a dead man is out for revenge

and how we can lose - and sometimes rescue - the ones we love

it is a chance to build a new world

Conceptually rich and attuned to the complexities of ethical decision making

When detectives Gino and Magozzi discover a playing card near the body

the town’s tiara-wearing

you may be reminded of Villanelle by Lily

- Card Size: 31/2 x 5"

as well as that of others

overshadowed by Imperial America

Mary the Sharing Fairy