{"product_id":"books-vineland-by-thomas-pynchon","title":"Vineland","description":"The inspiration for One Battle After Another  Thomas Pynchon's wretchedly funny dystopian thriller, sending up the end days of the American dream  Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.  Full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs, movie spoofs, and illicit sex, Vineland is vintage Pynchon.  'That rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years' Salman Rushdie","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670819954961,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780749391416.jpg?v=1781513057","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-vineland-by-thomas-pynchon","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}