Critical Praise

" Mr. Pynchon's satirical eye doesn't miss a thing, including rock `n' roll singers right wing extremists, and the general subculture of Southern California. "

——Library Journal

" A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force with a strongly European flavor. "

——San Francisco Examiner

"The comedy crackles, the puns pop the satire explodes. "

—New York Times

" The work of a virtuoso with prose.intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses. "

——Chicago Tribune