As Oedipa traces connections between various crackpots, the novel highlights the peculiarly asocial sociality of postwar U.S.

Rachel Owlglass is asking Benny Profane to write to her “how the road is,” the “boy’s road” that she’ll “never see, with its Diesels and dust, roadhouses, crossroads, saloons,” Ithaca being Cornell, ...

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 ...

'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 ...