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Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow

by ThomasPynchon (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $15.13
Synopsis

"The greatest, wildest author of his generation". ("Guardian"). We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As the "Financial Times" said, 'you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel.' Forty years since publication, "Gravity's Rainbow" has lost none of its power to enthral.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 912
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Feb 2013
ISBN 10: 0099511754
ISBN 13: 9780099511755
Book Overview: A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book.

Media Reviews
The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for quadrille paper * Irish Examiner *
Pynchon's masterpiece. -- John Sutherland * Guardian *
Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori. -- John Sutherland * The Times *
I read this at 19 or so and just thought, like, f*ck, wow: this is the marker, the pace-setter for the contemporary novel -- Tom McCarthy, author of 'C'
Thomas Pynchon, the greatest, wildest and most infuriating author of his generation. -- Ian Rankin * Guardian *
Author Bio
Thomas Pynchon was born in Long Island, USA in 1937. He took a scholarship at Cornell University and studied Engineering before switching to study English. He has served in the United States Navy and worked as a technical writer at Boeing. Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason & Dixon. Against the Day, and most recently Inherent Vice. He received the national book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.