Gravity's Rainbow - Hardcover

PynchonThomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670348325 ISBN 13: 9780670348329

Publisher: Viking, 1991

Synopsis

Thomas Pynchon's extraordinary tour de force...set in WW2, an exploration of the forces behind the scenes that shaped that war and shaped our lives ever since. Erudite, searingly funny, insightful with passages of great poetic beauty.

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Review:

"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)

"This stunner is already classed with Moby Dick and Ulysses. Set in Europe at the end of WWII, with the V2 as the White Whale, the novel's central characters race each other through a treasure hunt of false clues, disguises, distractions, horrific plots and comic counterplots to arrive at the formula which will launch the Super Rocket... Impossible here to convey the vastness of Pynchton's range, the brilliance of his imagery, the virtuosity of his style and his supreme ability to incorporate the cultural miasma of modern life" (Vogue)

"Pynchon leaves the rest of the American lierary establishment at the starting gate...the range over which he moves is extraordinary, not simply in terms of ideas explored but also in the range of emotions he takes you through" (Time Out)

"Entering this enormous novel is like buying a ticket for the ghost train and plunging into a world of metaphysical illusion, where you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel" (Financial Times)

Book Description:

Thomas Pynchon's opus magnus, a post-modern masterpiece and a dark satire of twentieth century culture and civilisation from one of the all-time greats of American literature.

Winner of the National Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0670348325
• ISBN 13: 9780670348329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 768