Thomas Pynchon

Inherent Vice

  • Inherent Vice

  • Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin.

    It's been a while since Doc Sportello saw his ex-girlfriend, when suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer.

    It all spells trouble to Doc, but before he knows it he is caught up in a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang.

Bleeding Edge
Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day
Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon
Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
The Crying Of Lot 49
The Crying Of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
V.
V.
Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner
Slow Learner
Thomas Pynchon
Vineland
Vineland
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

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