Inherent Vice

Inherent ViceBy: Thomas Pynchon The New York Times bestseller Named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times The funniest book Pynchon has written. Rolling Stones Entertainment of a high order. Time Magazine Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchonprivate eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. It's been a while since Doc

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you get perfect pitch

Holly Chang now prowls the shadowy gray underground of the city for the angels

cornered by the enemy

- Who committed the ghastly deed

Rose-bot explains why he can't climb there

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and advanced painters

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sinister wizardry and barbaric splendour

Mobilizing the ace fighters of Rogue Squadron–along with the trusty Chewbacca

from the authoritarian playbook endangering democracy to the flood of disinformation enabling authoritarianism