Vineland
Sign in to saveVineland is a 1990 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon set in California in 1984, the year of President Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through flashbacks, its characters, who lived through the 1960s, account for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describe the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and the war on drugs that clashed with it. The book portrays transformations in U.S. society from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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- Book.name
- Vineland
- Book.image
- Vineland.JPG
- Book.caption
- First edition
- Book.author
- Thomas Pynchon
- Book.country
- United States
- Book.genre
- Political satire,
- Book.published
- (Little, Brown and Company)
- Book.pages
- 385 (Hardcover first edition)
- Book.isbn
- 0-316-72444-0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Thomas Pynchon
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Followed by
- Mason & Dixon
- Follows
- Slow Learner
- Narrative location
- California
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- publication date
- 1990-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Vineland
- form of creative work
- novel
- first line
- LATER than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.
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Vineland is a 1990 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon set in California in 1984, the year of President Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through flashbacks, its characters, who lived through the 1960s, account for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describe the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and the war on drugs that clashed with it. The book portrays transformations in U.S. society from the 1960s to the 1980s.
The novel provided the inspiration for the loosely-adapted script of the 2025 film One Battle After Another by director Paul Thomas Anderson.
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