Tyrone Slothrop,a GI in London in 1944,has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection,a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited,and then,as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence,'a screaming comes across the sky',heralding an angel of death,a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. Gravity's Rainbow is never a single story,but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice,Teddy Bloat,Tantivy Mucker-Maffick,Saure Bummer,and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. It is a blizzard of references to science,history,high culture,and the lowest of jokes and among the most important novels of our time.Winner of the National Book Award.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099533214Number of pages: 912Weight: 643 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 45 mm
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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 paperPynchon's masterpiece.Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori.(A) masterpieceThis stunner is already classed with Moby Dick and Ulysses. Set in Europe at the end of WWII,with the V2 as the White Whale,the novel's central characters race each other through a treasure hunt of false clues,disguises,distractions,horrific plots and comic counterplots to arrive at the formula which will launch the Super Rocket... Impossible here to convey the vastness of Pynchton's range,the brilliance of his imagery,the virtuosity of his style and his supreme ability to incorporate the cultural miasma of modern life
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