List Price: $17.00 Details
Save: $2.51 (15%)
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime & FREE Returns
Return this item for free
  • Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges
  • Learn more about free returns.
FREE delivery Sunday, August 14 if you spend $25 on items shipped by Amazon
Or fastest delivery Thursday, August 11. Order within 1 hr 2 mins
In Stock.
As an alternative, the Kindle eBook is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app. Want to listen? Try Audible.
[{"displayPrice":"$14.49","priceAmount":14.49,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"14","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"49","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"fnnAZbSYGQBoYW9bnnrK6lFU9JwALmVjiYiwvjOhA7W%2BoB0feAoF8OAbIbKJBy%2FhPQThwUzzhRL%2BdoGd53TRDDN3Lcxv%2B6pJ4TfnIAh19iLXPpdvZYbzWbuPmbQD6U53olO98GYu3ao%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW"},{"displayPrice":"$8.08","priceAmount":8.08,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"8","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"08","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"HgzeLAkTkgNOg%2FLqNEtKupEC6%2FeVOZEMEekTsbJWrSRGp%2BnLe6z4FyiQ1eDR9%2BjsH%2FinFlcLgAxJqobnCBnATNnvNhbv3AA8RJTI35pwP%2FNNIKEPeOZls3ti3QmjDGhnHE53SQwK%2Bl6QZP8nTDqdwCHReiMg%2BAJuyTGHLk9OQWjtEdUfAqMcnnHvSSKfovei","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED"}]
$$14.49 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$14.49
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Return policy: Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Inherent Vice: A Novel has been added to your Cart
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime
FREE delivery Thursday, August 18 if you spend $25 on items shipped by Amazon
Or fastest delivery Tuesday, August 16
Condition: Used: Good
Comment: Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may be missing bundled media.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Share <Embed>
Have one to sell?
Other Sellers on Amazon
Added
$18.53
& FREE Shipping
Sold by: Publisher Direct
Sold by: Publisher Direct
(85204 ratings)
93% positive over last 12 months
Only 20 left in stock - order soon.
Shipping rates and Return policy
Added
$14.60
+ $3.99 shipping
Sold by: ZiFiti
Sold by: ZiFiti
(2127 ratings)
96% positive over last 12 months
In stock.
Usually ships within 4 to 5 days.
Shipping rates and Return policy
Added
$15.19
+ $3.99 shipping
Sold by: LadyLakeBooks
Sold by: LadyLakeBooks
(3347 ratings)
89% positive over last 12 months
In stock.
Usually ships within 3 to 4 days.
Shipping rates and Return policy
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Learn more

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Flip to back Flip to front
Listen Playing... Paused   You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

Follow the Author

Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Inherent Vice: A Novel Paperback – July 27, 2010

4.3 out of 5 stars 896 ratings

Price
New from Used from
Kindle
Paperback
$14.49
$11.57 $1.83

Enhance your purchase


Beat the heat with a great read Explore deals and books in every genre

Frequently bought together

  • Inherent Vice: A Novel
  • +
  • The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
  • +
  • Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Choose items to buy together.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“What he does, and brilliantly, is open windows onto a universe where we're all in custody, but we're none of us sure who put on the cuffs. . . . entertainment of a high order.” —TIME
 
“An enjoyable book by a writer whose work can be daunting.” 
—John Powers, Fresh Air on NPR
 
“With whip-smart, psychedelic-bright language, Pynchon manages to convey the Sixties
except the Sixties were never really like this. This is Pynchon's world, and it's brilliant. The resolution is as crisp as Doc is laid-back. Highly recommended.” —The Library Journal
 
“A deliciously composed dark comedy . . . that most Pynchon fans will be delighted by. . . . I found myself charmed and pleased with the way Pynchon meets the genre square and fair, on its own terms, and makes it his own.” 
San Fransisco Chronicle
 
“His most accessible book . . . the author's comical mystery (musings about the end of national innocence) as well as the wordplay so relentlessly present in any of his books, keep Pynchon's
Inherent Vice from being just another thriller—and ensure it is never less than entertaining.” The Denver Post
 
“With whip-smart, psychedelic-bright language, Pynchon manages to convey the Sixties-except the Sixties were never really like this. This is Pynchon's world, and it's brilliant.” 
The Library Journal
 
“Terrific pastiche of California noir, wonderfully amusing throughout (and hard to quote from in a family newspaper because of the frequent use of, uh, colorful spoken language) and a poignant evocation of the last flowering of the '60s, just before everything changed and passed into myth or memory.” 
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

“[A]n author whose work has long married the perversely dystopic to the poetically giddy, with the same cosmic unease with which louche noir detectives have long found a home under the insistent Los Angeles sun.” 
—John Anderson, Newsday

“Inherent Vice is the funniest book Pynchon has written. It's also a crazed and majestic summary of everything that makes him a uniquely huge American voice. It has the moral fury that's fueled his work from the start—his ferociously batshit compassion for America and the lost tribes who wander through it.” Rolling Stone
 
“We should all take a hit off a fat spliff and enjoy the dirty, brainy achievement of Pynchon's
Vice. . . . It's easy to forget, among all his games and puzzles, that Pynchon can write razor-sharp beauty with the best of them. A page-long description of the Santa Anas demands a place next to classic passages by Chandler and Joan Didion . . . With Pynchon's brilliance comes readability.” The Los Angeles Times

“[A] deliciously composed dark comedy . . . I found myself charmed and pleased with the way Pynchon meets the genre square and fair.” 
—Alan Cheuse, NPR

“Pynchon's prose is so casually vernacular, so deeply in the American grain, you forget that someone composed it.
Inherent Vice feels fizzily spontaneous—like a series of jazz solos, scenes, and conversations built around little riffs of language. Does it add up? Maybe. Do you get lost? Lured down a long linguistic dark alley is more like it. It's always weird but always fun.” Newsweek

“What Pynchon is after with the prodigal absurdities of Doc's adventures is not really parody, but something larger. They are a way to enter into a time and place of extravagant delusions, innocent freedoms, and an intoxicated (literally) sense of possibility. And to do it without sententiousness, to write in psychedelic colors disciplined by a steel-on-flint intelligence (thus the incandescent sparks).” 
The Boston Globe
 
“Hard to know what Thomas Pynchon was smoking when he wrote this pitch-perfect homage to the hard-boiled California crime novel, but it did the trick. . . . Pynchon’s just having a blast, and we are lucky to join in.” 
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 
“How pitch-perfect noir can one get?” 
Chicago Tribune
 
“[Of the] Pynchon novels,
Inherent Vice is funny, maybe even the funniest.” The Village Voice

“Pynchon is frolicking in this psychedelic mystery, featuring dopers, surfers, bikers, predators, and parasites, drugs and counterfeit money, setups and switchbacks, and the Golden Fang, a stealth ship. As Doc wiggles and smokes his way out of gnarly predicaments, Pynchon skewers urban renewal, television, government surveillance, and the looming computer age. A bit of a mystery himself, master writer Pynchon has created a bawdy, hilarious, and compassionate electric-acid-noir satire spiked with passages of startling beauty.” 
Booklist

“Blessed with a sympathetic hero, suspenseful momentum and an endlessly suggestive setting . . . [fans] will know it for the throwaway masterwork it is: playful as a dolphin, plaintive as whale song, unsoundly profound as the blue Pacific.” 
Publishers Weekly
 
“The new Pynchon: a beach read and a heartstring puller. It's almost surreal. A.” 
Entertainment Weekly
 
“Reading Thomas Pynchon again, one is reminded that fiction can clarify the world—capturing it as it seems to be—and it can also change the world by seeing it new ways. Pynchon is a magician in the second category: He applies language to what we know and all we’ve missed—giving new shape to both. . . . The book is exuberant, delightfully evocative of its era, and very funny.” 
O Magazine
 
“Thomas Pynchon, the paranoid poet of the information age, is LA’s greatest writer.” 
Wired
 
“After writing over 3,000 pages (some of the best in American fiction) on topics ranging from paranoia to Fay Wray to the demarcation of the Mason-Dixon Line, a towering literary giant takes on the hardened detective genre in a mere 384 pages. And he keeps up with the best of them.” 
GQ 

About the Author

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland , Mason and Dixon and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Explore together: Save with group virtual tours
Amazon Explore Browse now

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; Reprint edition (July 27, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143117564
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143117568
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.45 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 896 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937. His books include The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon.

Customer reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
896 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2018
5 people found this helpful
Report abuse
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2017
15 people found this helpful
Report abuse
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014
One person found this helpful
Report abuse
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2015
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013
3 people found this helpful
Report abuse
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2015
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2015
One person found this helpful
Report abuse
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2015

Top reviews from other countries

Hungry Sam
2.0 out of 5 stars Inscrutable and overrated
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2021
3 people found this helpful
Report abuse
Mr Peter C Doherty
5.0 out of 5 stars unbelievable
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2022
C. Vaughan
5.0 out of 5 stars Profound pop
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2018
4 people found this helpful
Report abuse
Robert Blythe
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting and nostalgic!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2018
5 people found this helpful
Report abuse
bridget
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good. Better than the film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2017
4 people found this helpful
Report abuse