The Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice (...Afterwords)

by J.M. Tyree

Literary Nonfiction. Thomas Pynchon's cult detective novel, Inherent Vice, depicts drug-addled private investigator Doc Sportello, a leftover of 1960s idealism, on an errant quest to decipher the disappearance of a real estate tycoon. As in his other books, Pynchon imagines a counterforce of marginalized dreamers and weirdos seeking a more humane world.

Tracing Inherent Vice's hilariously tangled plotlines and its hallucinatory prose, J...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999431684
• ISBN13: 9780999431689
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Fiction Advocate
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.0" x 6.0"