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Produced between Pynchon's two mammoth novels V (1963) and Gravity's Rainbow (1973), both of which are monuments of postmodern fictional complexity, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) at first takes on the appearance of a conventional, almost classical novel, with a plot, a mystery to be solved and hence a quest, which the heroine Oedipa Maas sets out to complete.
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Remedios Varo, Pierce Inverarity, San Narciso, Oedipa Maas, San Francisco, New York, Sub Stance, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Maxwell's Demon, Baby Igor, Englewood Cliffs, Grace Bortz, Women's Language, Clerk Maxwell, Echo Courts, Genghis Cohen, Manny Di Presso, Tony Tanner, Winthrop Tremaine, Arnold Snarb, Editions de Minuit, Edna Mosh, Mexico City, Bantam Books
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