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The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.    "The work of a virtuoso with prose.intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses." --Chicago Tribune "The comedy crackles, the puns pop the satire explodes." -- The New York Times "A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force with a strongly European flavor." --San Francisco Examiner