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Gravity's Rainbow

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 912
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-09-953321-4
  • EAN
  • 9780099533214
  • Release date
  • 1995