Thomas Pynchon. First American edition (stated), first printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. Both hardcover and dust jacket in Very Good condition. Dust jacket is unclipped, in a mylar protective wrapper, with a small burn hole found on the lower front side of jacket. Dust jacket designed by Steve Snider. No writing or markings in this well preserved edition, 385 pp. NB: There three blemishes with the book which include the following. First, a small burn hole though the jackets "N" in authors name, as a result, there is a small stain on front book cover. Thirdly, one side of the flyleaf page was removed by previous owner. The integrity of the book is solid though.
Hardcover forest green cloth with embossed front panel, silver gilt spine titling. First edition, first printing, so stated with full number line on copyright.
A political thriller, set in Northern California in 1984. A group of Americans are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties as well as interpersonal and political dramas of the Reagan era.
The book was published in 1990, almost 20 years after his National Book Award-winning and game-changing novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Vineland sparked strong reactions from critics.
In his 1990 review, Salman Rushdie called it "that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years." Go inside the mind of one of our most important living authors, now 87 years old, and see what he was thinking and writing for those 17 mysterious years between 1973 and 1990.
