Inverarity appears to have owned or financed nearly all the goings-on in San Narciso, a (fictional) southern Californian city near Los Angeles. One day, Oedipa learns of the death of an ex-lover, Pierce Inverarity, an incredibly wealthy real-estate mogul, who has left her as the executor of his estate. Hilarius, an unhinged German psychotherapist who tries to medicate his patients with LSD. In the mid-1960s, Oedipa Maas lives a fairly comfortable life in the (fictional) northern Californian village of Kinneret, despite her lackluster marriage with Mucho Maas, a rudderless radio jockey and ephebophile and her sessions with Dr. Time included the novel in its " TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005". Like most of Pynchon's writing, The Crying of Lot 49 is often described as postmodernist literature. One of these companies, Thurn and Taxis, actually existed, operating from 1806 to 1867, and was the first private firm to distribute postal mail. The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows Oedipa Maas, a young Californian woman who begins to embrace a conspiracy theory as she possibly unearths a centuries-old feud between two mail distribution companies. The Crying of Lot 49 is a 1966 novella by the American author Thomas Pynchon.
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