Who is Oedipa Maas? And what is the strange legacy of her ex-lover Pierce Inverarity, California real-estate mogul, that first led her to the bizarre postal network called W.A.S.T.E., then to Genghis Cohen who likes his sex with the news on, and to the world-wide conspiracy known as the Tristero System, and then on into the mystery and enigma of America itself?
"THE COMEDY CRACKLES, THE PUNS POP, THE SATIRE EXPLODES" / The New York Times