Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49.
Harper Perennial, 1986. Modern Classics. 006091307X  152 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", is like new.
"Thomas Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas, first published in 1965. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity dies and designates her the co-executor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Mass is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not-inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge."