Gravity's Rainbow
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4.0 • 10 Ratings
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- £2.99
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Publisher Description
Winner of the National Book Award
"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic
“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.
Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Gravity’s Rainbow has a reputation as the densest and most difficult novel this side of James Joyce, and we’re not gonna lie, it does require a certain level of dedication. But Thomas Pynchon’s surreal epic pays off for readers who hop on to its daffy, defiant wavelength. Pynchon’s countercultural view of World War II as a farcical face-off between equally depraved societies will feel familiar to fans of Catch-22 or Dr. Strangelove. But the iconoclastic writer’s profane, fantastical, sometimes horrifying, and deeply humanist world is singularly his own. Jump in and take the ride.
