Vineland Format:Paperback meets a man who seems

meets a man who seems too good to be true and falls under his spell

Gemma Church

and her father’s bequest

only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home

These six novellas tell the story of a place where the rain is always falling

Vineland Format:Paperback meets a man who seemsVineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie