Suffused 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.
Vintage edition of Thomas Pynchon's second novel. Oedipa Maas is made executor
of a former lover's estate. Her duties set her on a strange trail of detection.