Gravity's Rainbow
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Gravity's Rainbow is never a single story but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice Teddy Bloat Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Saure Bummer and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension.|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 Against the Day and Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.|Tyrone Slothrop a GI in London in 1944 has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited and then as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence 'a screaming comes across the sky' heralding an angel of death a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. Gravity's Rainbow is never a single story but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice Teddy Bloat Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Saure Bummer and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. It is a blizzard of references to science history high culture and the lowest of jokes and among the most important novels of our time.Winner of the National Book Award.|The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for quadrille paper|Pynchon’s masterpiece.|Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori.|[A] masterpiece|This stunner is already classed with Moby Dick and Ulysses. Set in Europe at the end of WWII with the V2 as the White Whale the novel's central characters race each other through a treasure hunt of false clues disguises distractions horrific plots and comic counterplots to arrive at the formula which will launch the Super Rocket... Impossible here to convey the vastness of Pynchton's range the brilliance of his imagery the virtuosity of his style and his supreme ability to incorporate the cultural miasma of modern life
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