Vineland: The inspiration for One Battle After Another

A major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years...One of America's great writers has, after long wanderings down his uncharted roads, come triumphantly home -- Salman Rushdie ― New York Times Book Review

Vintage stuff - funny, fantastically inventive, packed with improbable erudition ― Times Literary Supplement

A essential novel of our fin de siecle, a finger pointing the way out of the 1980s ― USA Today

His descriptive powers are breathtaking...Pynchon proves once again to be the master of what might be called the highbrow conspiracy thriller ― Wall Street Journal

One of the funniest, most cleverly written, superbly characterised and beautifully structured books that I have read by a living author ― Time Out

How this book towers...it is a political novel in the ambitious, exuberant, powerfully serious mode of The Satanic Verses..It is funny, very funny -- Fay Weldon