This short fable followed Pynchon's first novel V. First published in 1966, it is a surreal comedy satirizing Californian life. Oedipa Maas, a recent heiress, p... » 

This short fable followed Pynchon's first novel V. First published in 1966, it is a surreal comedy satirizing Californian life. Oedipa Maas, a recent heiress, pursues enquiries into the nature of her inheritance and the motivation of her dead lover and is led on an ambiguous trail of clues. «