![]() ![]() His fans tend to be drawn to either his massive, bafflingly complex efforts - the iconic, National Book Award-winning “Gravity’s Rainbow,” “Mason & Dixon” and “Against the Day” - or to the more constrained, plot-driven narratives of “Vineland” or “The Crying of Lot 49.” It is the big books, with their parades of gloriously obtuse set pieces, full of slapstick and conspiracy and minutely researched ephemera, that established Pynchon as a writer worthy of intense inquiry. ![]() This, of course, is exactly the kind of layered meaning that readers expect of Pynchon. What could easily be mistaken as a paean to 1960s Southern California is also a sly herald of that era’s end. “Inherent Vice” is Thomas Pynchon doing Raymond Chandler through a Jim Rockford looking glass, starring Cheech Marin (or maybe Tommy Chong). ![]()
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