Gravity's Rainbow Paperback / softback
by Thomas Pynchon
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:912 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:20/07/1995
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- ISBN:9780099533214
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:912 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:20/07/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099533214