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        The Crying of Lot 49


        setting

        California

        time

        1960s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1966

        page count

        183

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Oedipa Maas,Pierce Inverarity, Wendell "Mucho" Maas

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.

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