Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube.
Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs (``Floozy with an Uzi``), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Mus.
Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie\'s long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.
Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube