Gravity's Rainbow (Paperback)

Thomas Pynchon (author)

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Paperback 912 Pages / Published: 07/02/2013

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Synopsis

`The greatest, wildest author of his generation' Guardian We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As the Financial Times said, `you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel.' Forty years since publication, Gravity's Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099511755
Number of pages: 912
Weight: 617 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 40 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"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 *
"I read this at 19 or so and just thought, like, f*ck, wow: this is the marker, the pace-setter for the contemporary novel" -- Tom McCarthy, author of 'C'
"Thomas Pynchon, the greatest, wildest and most infuriating author of his generation." -- Ian Rankin * Guardian *