Gravity’s Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Author: Thomas Pynchon

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Dimensions: 5.59 x 1.34 x 8.43 inches

ISBN-10: 143039946

ISBN-13: 978-0143039945

Publication Date: October 31, 2006

Print Length: 784 pages

Description: Winner of the National Book Award

“The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.” —The New Republic

A screaming comes across the sky. . . A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds exactly to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.

Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with French flaps and deckle-edged paper.

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