CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thomas Pynchon, The Family Reunion, Drug Enforcement Administration
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The story is set in california, united states, in 1984, the year of ronald reagan"s reelection. This hinges heavily on frenesi gates, prairie"s mother, whom she has never met. Brock vond, a federal prosecutor, intends to bring down pr , and finds a willing accomplice in. She is a member of 24fps, a militant film collective (other members of which are the people telling prairie their story in the present), that seeks to document the "fascists" " transgressions against freedom and the hippie ideals. Frenesi is uncontrollably attracted to brock and the sex he provides, and ends up working as a double agent to bring about the killing of the de facto leader of. Pr , weed atman (a mathematics professor who accidentally became the subject of a cult of personality). Her betrayal caused frenesi to flee, and she has been living in witness protection with brock"s help up until the present day.
