Thomas Pynchon's amazing and hilarious The Crying of Lot 49
- Author: Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
- Rank: #43
- Published: 1966
- Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company
- Pages: 183
- First Line: “One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.”
- Last Lines: “Passerine spread his arms in a gesture that seemed to belong to the priesthood of some remote culture; perhaps to a descending angel. The auctioneer cleared his throat. Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49.”
- ML Edition: none
- Film: none
- Acclaim: All-TIME List
- First Read: July, 2000 (more…)
