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Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.
Oct 31, 2006 · A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, 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 ...
Feb 28, 1973 · Thomas Pynchon. 4.00. 44,410 ratings4,268 reviews. Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first.
Feb 23, 2023 · This is the wiki for Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Besides using the Alphabetical Index and the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at Gravity's Rainbow covers , read the reviews , or entertain some theories on the source of the title .
Feb 28, 2023 · The story of Tyrone’s ancestor William Slothrop provides a key insight into the environmentalist politics of Gravity’s Rainbow. Having arrived in America on the Arbella with other Puritan ...
Nov 17, 2011 · Gravity's rainbow. by. Pynchon, Thomas, b. 1947. Publication date. 1973. Topics. World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction, Americans -- Europe -- Fiction, Rockets (Ordnance) -- Fiction, Rocketry -- Fiction, Soldiers -- Fiction, Europe -- Fiction. Publisher.
A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, 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.
Jun 13, 2012 · 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 identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites.
Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. Viking Press, 1973 - Fiction - 760 pages. Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant...
Jun 13, 2012 · Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. Penguin, Jun 13, 2012 - Fiction - 768 pages. Winner of the 1974 National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War...
