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Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
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Description for Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon
Paperback. 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, "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. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 662.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Number of pages
912
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
912
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099533214
SKU
V9780099533214
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About Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day and Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
Reviews for Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon
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
[A] masterpiece
Marc Chacksfield ... Read more
Irish Examiner
Pynchon’s masterpiece.
John Sutherland
Guardian
Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori.
John Sutherland
The Times
[A] masterpiece
Marc Chacksfield ... Read more