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26%OFFThomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow - 9780099511755 - V9780099511755
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Gravity's Rainbow

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Description for Gravity's Rainbow Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 174 x 46. Weight in Grams: 626.

Discover Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic.

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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 the 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 its publication, Gravity’s Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
912
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
912
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511755
SKU
V9780099511755
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About Thomas Pynchon
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Gravity's Rainbow
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
Irish Examiner
Pynchon’s masterpiece.
John Sutherland
Guardian
Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori.
John Sutherland
The Times
[A] masterpiece
Marc Chacksfield ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Gravity's Rainbow


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