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Gravity's rainbow

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935 Reviews
Penguin, 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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The plot is incredible as is the writing. - Goodreads
The writing is atrocious: confusing for one thing. - Goodreads
A love story, really. - Goodreads
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Some of the writing is funny, even silly. - Goodreads

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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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User Review  - Jennifer Capouilliez - Goodreads

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Contents

Beyond the Zero
1
Un Perm au Casino Hermann Goering
179
In the Zone
279
The Counterforce
617
Copyright

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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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