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Gravity's rainbow

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935 Reviews
Penguin Group USA, 1995 - Fiction - 760 pages
In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his convoluted, allusive novel about a metaphysical quest, published in 1973, further confirmed Pynchon's reputation as one of the greatest writers of the century.

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User Review  - John Hampel - Goodreads

This is just an amazing, astonishing work. Every time I'd turn a page, I entered into another of Pynchon's strange confabulated worlds. I carried around a copy of Gravity's Rainbow wherever I went for ... Read full review

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Gravity's Rainbow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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About the author (1995)

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 and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

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TitleGravity's rainbow
Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Series
Penguin Twentieth-century Classics
The American studies collection
AuthorThomas Pynchon
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin Group USA, 1995
ISBN0140188592, 9780140188592
Length760 pages
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