Vinel&, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, & the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler & 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 spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), & illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in V.).