VinelandBy: Thomas Pynchon The inspiration for One Battle After Another Thomas Pynchon's wretchedly funny dystopian thriller, sending up the end days of the American dream Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long lost mother, a Sixties radical