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* DarkerAndEdgier: Much darker and even more depressing than his other lighter work.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Much darker Not only it is bleak and even more depressing than his other lighter work.depressing, but it is also emotionally resonant.
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* BittersweetEndingBittersweetEnding: Suprisingly, ''Vineland'' ends on a resolve bittersweet note unlike Pynchon’s earlier work.



* CerebusSyndrome: The book starts off as a goofy 80s B-movie but slowly loses its humor and the tone of the story gets increasingly darker and depressing.



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* ActionGirl: D. L. Chastain.

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The book follows Zoyd Wheeler, an aging hippie with a beautiful daughter, Prairie, collecting mental disability check by jumping through plate-glass window once in a year. It wasn’t until the arrival of his old nemesis, Federal Prosecutor Brock Vond, come out of his past and determines to kill anyone from Zoyd’s community, that Zoyd went into hiding and send Prairie to a wedding gig with her boyfriend. And there she will meet someone to uncover her mother’s dark past.
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''Vineland'' is a 1990 novel by Creator/ThomasPynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-election.

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''Vineland'' is a 1990 novel by Creator/ThomasPynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-election.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharactersLoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Not to mention that it kept changing perspectives and does not return to the original perspective.
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* MissingMom: Prairie Wheeler.

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* MissingMom: Prairie Wheeler.Wheeler lived with Zoyd and it’s one of the main point that moves the plot.
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* TheCameo: Mucho Maas from The Crying of Lot 49'' appears in one of Zoyd’s flashbacks.

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* TheCameo: Mucho Maas from The ''The Crying of Lot 49'' appears in one of Zoyd’s flashbacks.



* DarkerAndEdgier: Surprisingly very dark and even more depressing than his other lighter work.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Surprisingly very dark Much darker and even more depressing than his other lighter work.

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The setting returns back to California which was last seen in ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49''.



* TheCameo: Mucho Maas from ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49'' appears in one of Zoyd’s flashbacks.

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* TheCameo: Mucho Maas from ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49'' The Crying of Lot 49'' appears in one of Zoyd’s flashbacks.



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* MissingMomMissingMom: Prairie Wheeler.
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->“Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.”
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* ActionGirl: D. L. Chastain

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* TheCameo: Mucho Maas from Literature/TheCryingOfLot49 appears in one of Zoyd’s flashbacks.

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* TheCameo: Mucho Maas from Literature/TheCryingOfLot49 ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49'' appears in one of Zoyd’s flashbacks.
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* TheCameo: Mucho Maas from Literature/TheCryingOfLot49 appears in one of Zoyd’s flashbacks.
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* DarkerAndEdgier

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* DarkerAndEdgierDarkerAndEdgier: Surprisingly very dark and even more depressing than his other lighter work.

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* CerebusSyndromeCerebusSyndrome: The book starts off as a goofy 80s B-movie but slowly loses its humor and the tone of the story gets increasingly darker and depressing.


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''Vineland'' is a 1990 novel by Creator/ThomasPynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-election.

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''Vineland'' is a 1990 novel by Creator/ThomasPynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-election.re-election.
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''Vineland'' is the third novel by Thomas Pynchon.

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''Vineland'' is the third a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon.Creator/ThomasPynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan’s re-election.
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''Vineland'' is the third novel by Thomas Pynchon.

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