Inherent Vice by Pynchon, Thomas staff pick

Inherent Vice by Pynchon, Thomas staff pickAuthor: Pynchon, Thomas Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 5 August 2010 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 384 pages 199 x 130 x 24 266g Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as

it became abundantly clear that the 'miracle' treatment was infected

yet too coarse for courtly life

'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess

or those surrounding them' Cathy Rentzenbrink'A wonderfully important and transforming book - lucid

very clever fun

White Chappell

''One of the best books I've ever read

Witold Gombrowicz

and brilliant work of embodied critique' Ben Lerner'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read' Hari KunzruBlending memoir with critique

or for reading while numbed and bewildered – all times when the right poem can help us share and bear the burden of immediate grief

Peters & Small Ltd in the United Kingdom

surreal style of illustration