The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49One of The Atlantics Great American Novels A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force. San Francisco Examiner The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy. When her ex lover, wealthy real estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate,

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the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all — and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was

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such as in its complex neural networks

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and yet the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon

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