Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon? private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog
Penguin Press
August 2009
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Featuring: Doc Sportello
384 pages ISBN: 1594202249 EAN: 9781594202247 Hardcover Add to Wish List
It’s been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-
girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a
story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer
whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to
say. It’s the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A.,
and Doc knows that “love” is another of those words going
around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” except that
this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon
finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and
passions whose cast of characters includes surfers,
hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a
tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a
swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a
mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only
be a tax dodge set up by some dentists.
In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an
unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the
principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren’t
there . . . or . . . if you were there, then you . . . or,
wait, is it . . .
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