In Vineland, Thomas Pynchon revisits the hippies he clearly valorised in the summer and autumn of 1984, 15/16 years after their heyday and shortly before Ronald Reagan's landslide re-election. Zoyd Wheeler is living a quiet, off-grid existence with his 14-year-old daughter in Vineland, Northern California when sinister Department of Justice prosecutor and ex-boyfriend of Frenesi's mum Brock Vond suddenly reappears. Dark, unpredictable, and unconventionally humorous, Vineland will keep you turning the pages and give you weeks of reading joy.