Shelfology Book Pairing

by Thomas Pynchon

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange

by John Steinbeck

The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.