Vineland Format:Paperback founder member of the Beats

founder member of the Beats and author of Naked Lunch

Jain and Buddhist thought

and advice on the order of work

as millions already do

modern biography series that profiles 15 diverse

Vineland Format:Paperback founder member of the BeatsVineland, 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