Gravity's Rainbow - Softcover

Pynchon, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099511754 ISBN 13: 9780099511755

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2013

Synopsis

Discover Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic.

‘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 the 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 its publication, Gravity’s Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.

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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 doesnt 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, Gravitys Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.

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)

"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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099511754
• ISBN 13: 9780099511755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 912