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Line 1: {{work}} {{Infobox book ''Inherent Vice'' is a 2009 novel by [[Thomas Pynchon]]. Ostensibly it follows Doc Sportello, a private investigator in California trying to find a missing real estate developer on the behest of his ex-girlfriend but really the work explores a much wider set of themes including the sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle of the '60s and its clashes with forces of law and order with a neo-noir sensibility. ▼ \| title = Inherent Vice \| image = Inherent Vice book cover.jpg \| caption = First edition cover \| author = Thomas Pynchon \| central theme = \| elevator pitch = \| genre = Detective novel \| publication date = 2009 \| source page exists = \| wiki URL = \| wiki name = }} ▲'''''Inherent Vice''''' is a 2009 novel by [[Thomas Pynchon]]. Ostensibly it follows Doc Sportello, a private investigator in California trying to find a missing real estate developer on the behest of his ex-girlfriend but really the work explores a much wider set of themes including the sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle of the '60s and its clashes with forces of law and order with a neo-noir sensibility. The novel was adapted into a film in 2014 by [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]. {{Needs More Info}} ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~[[Category:~~{{Needs More Tropes]]}}▼ * [[Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]]: The ''Golden Fang''. The Viggies. The Boards. Mickey Wolfmann. Wherever you look, a new conspiracy pops up. * [[Femme Fatale]]: Shasta starts off as one, but Pynchon once again subverts the trope by the end of the book. Line 12 ⟶ 29: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Literature~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Lit Fic]] [[Category:Conspiracy Literature]] [[Category:The Sixties]] [[Category:~~Inherent~~Literature ~~Vice~~of the 2000s]] ▲[[Category:Literature]] ~~[[Category:Needs a Better Description]]~~ ▲[[Category:Needs More Tropes]]