Inherent vice

by

[sound recording] /, 15 pages

English language

Published March 18, 2009 by Penguin Audio.

ISBN:
978-0-14-314476-2
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OCLC Number:
427418247

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Doc Sportello is bewildered when an ex-girlfriend returns to recruit him in a plot to kidnap a wealthy construction executive. Soon, Sportello finds himself in the midst of a thrilling conspiracy with an undercover cop and a group of dentists who are swindling the IRS.

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reviewed Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

It's good (I read it at a bad time the first time)

Re-read this after finishing Shadow Ticket. Who the hell was I when I first finished this—and felt let down? Some pebble-kicking aw-shucks I-guess-so dummy who must’ve let the bummer of looking for work soon after the financial collapse keep him from realizing how good a novel IV really is, maybe?

Subjects

  • Private investigators
  • Fiction
  • History

Places

  • Los Angeles (Calif.)