Gravity's rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

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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Review: Gravity's Rainbow

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 ...

Review: Gravity's Rainbow

User Review  - Jennifer Capouilliez - Goodreads

insane!

Contents

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

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gravity's rainbow; Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Series; Penguin Twentieth-century Classics; The American studies collection
• Author: Thomas Pynchon
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin, 1995
• ISBN: 0140188592, 9780140188592
• Length: 760 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary