{"product_id":"vineland-reread-by-peter-coviello-9780231185219","title":"Vineland Reread","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e is hardly anyone's favourite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic \u003cem\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/em\u003e, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon's writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with his early besotted encounters with \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e, Coviello reads Pynchon's offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that \u003cem\u003eVineland\u003c\/em\u003e is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon's harmonising of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433267183852,"sku":"9780231185219","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231185219.jpg?v=1774765299","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/vineland-reread-by-peter-coviello-9780231185219","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}