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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
By Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Classics
Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
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Gravity's Rainbow opens with the cryptic line, “A screaming comes across the sky...” Set shortly after the German V-2 rocket attacks on London, it follows Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, whose sexual activities oddly predict where rockets will strike. This discovery pulls him into a vast, enigmatic pursuit across wartime Europe, entangled with shadowy military-industrial forces and the elusive Rocket 00000. The novel is a sprawling, postmodern epic exploring technology’s profound effects on society.
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, "Gravity's Rainbow" is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's "Ulysses" was to the first.

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Winner of the National Book Award

"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic

“A screaming comes across the sky...” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.

Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french flaps and deckle-edged paper.

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    Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Winner of the National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky...” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143039945

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Frank Miller

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 145.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 812g

Pages: 784

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About the Author

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; Inherent Vice; Bleeding Edge; and Shadow Ticket. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

Frank Miller is the author and illustrator of Sin City and the 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which is regarded as a milestone in the superhero genre.

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