Gravity’s Rainbow

DESCRIPTION :

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.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 653 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
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