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Gravity's Rainbow

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Gravity's Rainbow Synopsis

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.

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ISBN: 9780099533214
Publication date: 20th July 1995
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Vintage an imprint of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 912 pages
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Narrative theme: Interior life