Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party to find that she had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of her former lover, Pierce Inverarity, a California property mogul ...

I don’t remember reading “The Crying of Lot 49” for the first time, let alone how it came into my life. Those details are eclipsed by what I do recall — the process of coping with its bewildering form ...

'One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed ...