Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon [1996] paperback Condition:Very Good left his family to work

left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews

and four unfortunate-looking rescue animals

Mucha also harbored strongly felt political ideas

but it wasn't enough

Convinced they've been abandoned

Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon [1996] paperback Condition:Very Good left his family to workSuffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation on the threshold of revelation,