Title: The best american novel of the Eighties.
Product review: Divorce, pollution, television, computers, spies, firearms, drugs, science, supermarkets, pornography, tourists and Hitler Studies. All this and more is combined in a dryly (and - darkly) funny tale of middle class dread. Jack Gladney, professor of the only Hitler Studies degree program in the world, lives with his blended family in a New England College town. The Gladney's embrace all that SHOULD be comforting about middle class life, but nothing erases their fear of death. Things get complicated after a bit of infidelity and the appearance of an experimental drug (it takes away the fear of death).Those who either love or despise Pynchon should appreciate this startling picture of Middle American life wrapped into a tightly plotted suspense story.
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