Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice

Available August 4

Three years after the humongous Against the Day, America's most elusive author — OK, he shares the honor with J.D. Salinger — returns with a comic-metaphysical detective tale set in the psychedelic '60s. In the fine tradition of Pynchon novels, it's under wraps until publication date, but we can divulge that at 384 pages it promises to be a bit more portable than Mason and Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow.

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