{"product_id":"vineland-reread-peter-coviello-9780231185219","title":"Vineland Reread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon's writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with his early besotted encounters with \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e, Coviello reads Pynchon's offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction. Offering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon's harmonizing of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Coviello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231185219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231185219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/28\/2020","brand":"Peter Coviello","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978541367551,"sku":"9780231185219","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5b9be38c-07c1-40b6-89cd-568bcd294a71.jpg?v=1683242059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vineland-reread-peter-coviello-9780231185219","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}