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The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: George Wilson
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Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executor 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, awaiting The Crying of Lot 49.

©1966 Thomas Pynchon (P)2005 Recorded Books LLC
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If you like directionless literary meandering then this may be your tome. If you like any cohesion in your story-lines this may be best avoided.

Well written, though pointless, story.

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