Introduction: 'the fork in the road' 1. Refuge and refuse in Slow Learner
2. Convoluted reading: identity, interpretation and reference in The Crying
of Lot 49 3. Disappearing points: V. 4. 'A progressive knotting into':
power, presentation and history in Gravity's Rainbow 5. Cultural nostalgia
and political possibility in Vineland 6. Mason & Dixon and the
transnational vortices of historical fiction 7. 'I believe in incursion
from elsewhere': political and aesthetic disruption in Against the Day
Conclusion: Inherent Vice as Pynchon Lite? Works Cited Index
