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Bookseller recommendation
“A trippy 60's California tale of a suburban housewife who takes on a puzzle which leads to her seeing signs and kooky red herrings. ”
— Roxanne • Bookstore1Sarasota
Summary
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern
California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
โThe work of a virtuoso with prose โฆ His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyceโs Ulysses.โโChicago Tribune