{"product_id":"vineland-by-thomas-pynchon-9780141180632","title":"Vineland","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Quite simply, one of those books that will make this world - our world, our daily chemical-preservative, plastic-wrapped bread - a little more tolerable, a little more human... [Pynchon's] voice - absolutely unmistakeable and absolutely inimitable... is \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e American voice of the late twentieth century.\" —Frank McConnell, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984...\"\u003c\/i\u003e On California's fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbour a wild assortment of Sixties survivors and refugees from the \"Nixonian Reaction,\" still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches him that his old nemesis, sinister Federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed Justice Department strike force. Zoyd instantly disappears underground, but not before dispatching his teenage daughter Prairie on a dark odyssey into her secret, unspeakable past...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFreely combining disparate elements from American pop culture - spy thrillers, Ninja potboilers, TV soap operas, sci-fi fantasies - \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47398084870380,"sku":"9780141180632","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6608303482238.jpg?v=1773741213","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/vineland-by-thomas-pynchon-9780141180632","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}