Gravity’s rainbow

Pynchon, Thomas

£10.99

Hailed by many as the major experimental novel of the post-war period, Gravity’s Rainbow is a bizarre comic masterpiece in which linguistic virtuosity creates a whole other world.

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Publish Date: 07/02/2013

Description

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

‘The greatest, wildest author of his generation’ Guardian

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.

Additional information

Weight 617 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 40 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

902

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K