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Vineland is a 1990 [a] novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's reelection. [6] Through flashbacks by its characters, who have lived the sixties in their youth, the story accounts for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describes the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and its War on Drugs that ...
Unsheltered is a 2018 novel by Barbara Kingsolver published by HarperCollins. It follows two families living in the same house at two separate time periods in Vineland, New Jersey. The novel alternates between the 21st century and the 19th century, using the last words of one chapter as the title of the next one. [1]
Pynchon, age 16, in his high school senior portrait. Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, [5] one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996), a nurse.
Vineland may refer to: Vinland, the Viking colony in North America; Vineland, a novel by Thomas Pynchon; The Vinelander, a former train service in Victoria, Australia;
According to the website of the Vineland Training School, the original official name was "The New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feebleminded Children" (1888). This was changed to "The New Jersey Training School" in 1893. In 1911, the name was changed again to "The Training School at Vineland".
Vinland Saga (Japanese: ヴィンランド・サガ, Hepburn: Vinrando Saga) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura.The series is published by Kodansha, and was first serialized in the boys-targeted manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine before moving to Monthly Afternoon, aimed at young adult men.
Vinland, Vineland, [2] [3] or Winland [4] (Old Norse: Vínland hit góða, lit. 'Vinland the Good') was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings . Leif Eriksson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot . [ 5 ]
I am curious why the article asserts that the city of Vineland is located in the Anderson Valley. I got the impression reading the novel that Vineland was in northern Mendocino county. Pot production is a much larger part of the local economy in northern Mendocino than southern (at least now), and frequent references are made to characters ...