Inherent Vice

novel by Pynchon

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Inherent Vice (2009) is a novel by Thomas Pynchon that offers a rambling take on the detective novel genre. It returns to the California counterculture milieu explored in his earlier novel Vineland. The book was adapted into a film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014.1

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Thomas Pynchon
Vineland, Inherent Vice, and other novels
Inherent Vice (2009), Pynchon’s rambling take on the detective novel, returns to the California counterculture milieu of Vineland. It was made into a film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014. Anderson’s 2025 film One Battle After Another is a loose adaptation of Vineland that changes…
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Inherent Vice (2009), Pynchon’s rambling take on the detective novel, returns to the California counterculture milieu of Vineland. It was made into a film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014. Anderson’s 2025 film One Battle After Another is a loose adaptation of Vineland that changes…
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Reese Witherspoon
Walk the Line and Wild
…Vice (2014), adapted from the comic crime noir by Thomas Pynchon, she played the love interest of a private investigator (Joaquin Phoenix). The farcical Hot Pursuit (2015) featured Witherspoon as a straight-laced police officer who must protect the widow of a criminal. She later supplied the voice of a pig…
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…Vice (2014), adapted from the comic crime noir by Thomas Pynchon, she played the love interest of a private investigator (Joaquin Phoenix). The farcical Hot Pursuit (2015) featured Witherspoon as a straight-laced police officer who must protect the widow of a criminal. She later supplied the voice of a pig…
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