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Oedipa Maas receives a letter naming her executor of Pierce Inverarity's estate.
Chapter 1Oedipa goes to San Narciso to research Pierce's assets and engages in an affair with Metzger.
Chapter 2Oedipa and Metzger see The Courier's Tragedy, and Oedipa first hears the word Tristero.
Chapter 3Oedipa follows leads about the Tristero and ends up scrutinizing Pierce's stamp collection.
Chapter 4Oedipa spends a hallucinogenic day and night following the muted post horn through San Francisco.
Chapter 5| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | Arriving at her Southern California home, Oedipa Maas learns she has been chosen as the executor of her ex-boyfriend's w... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | Oedipa drives down to San Narciso, a place "less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts," to look into Pierce'... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | The narrator mentions the "Tristero" for the first time, saying Oedipa's "infidelity with Metzger" was the "starting poi... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Oedipa becomes so enmeshed in following her leads that "everything she saw, smelled, dreamed, remembered, would somehow ... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | Oedipa leaves Metzger behind and drives north to Berkeley. She stays at a hotel hosting a deaf-mute conference. She has ... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Back at her hotel in San Narciso, Oedipa finds out Metzger has run off to elope with the girlfriend of Paranoids band me... Read More |
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