Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Vintage Books, 2013 - Fiction - 902 pages

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 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 publication, "Gravity's Rainbow" has lost none of its power to enthral.

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User Review  - Ghost_Boy - LibraryThing

WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ? Even though I got very little out of this, it was a fun wild trip...not ride. Is Pynchon on LSD or is he crazy or just a weird writer? Erections, chaos, erections ...

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User Review  - charlie68 - LibraryThing

I just couldn't like this book and several times I almost quit. If it had been a movie I would've popped out the DVD fairly quickly as it crossed a lot of my red lines. Why did I go on? Well it's a ...

About the author

Thomas Pynchon was born in Long Island, USA in 1937. He took a scholarship at Cornell University and studied Engineering before switching to study English. He has served in the United States Navy and worked as a technical writer at Boeing.

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow
Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason & Dixon. Against the Day, and most recently Inherent Vice. He received the national book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gravity's Rainbow; Vintage Classics
• Author: Thomas Pynchon
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vintage Books, 2013
• ISBN: 0099511754, 9780099511755
• Length: 902 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical