ISBN: 1101594608 9781101594605

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 167

<b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br><b>“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—</b><i><b>The New York Times</b><br><br></i><b>“The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s <i>Ulysses</i>.”—</b><i><b>Chicago Tribune</b><br><br></i><b>“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—<i>San Francsisco Examiner</i></b><br><br>The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.<br><br>When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.<br> <i> </i>