Set in Reagan-era California, Vineland unfolds in a world of ex-hippies, federal agents, and TV-obsessed dreamers where rebellion has gone to seed. Pynchon’s vision is at once absurd and tender—a fractured America stitched together by paranoia, memory, and the strange persistence of love. As characters drift between surveillance and counterculture, the novel becomes a meditation on resistance, nostalgia, and what remains after the revolution fades.

Why We Picked It

Because Pynchon’s world is chaotic, comic, and uncannily prophetic. Vineland unravels America’s tangled myths with brilliance and bite.

Details

• Author: Thomas Pynchon
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: September 1, 1997
• ISBN: 9780141180632
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