Gravity's Rainbow
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4.1 • 8 Ratings
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- £2.99
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Publisher Description
Winner of the 1974 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 identically 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Gravity’s Rainbow has a reputation as the densest and most difficult novel this side of James Joyce, and we’re not gonna lie, it does require a certain level of dedication. But Thomas Pynchon’s surreal epic pays off for readers who hop on to its daffy, defiant wavelength. Pynchon’s countercultural view of World War II as a farcical face-off between equally depraved societies will feel familiar to fans of Catch-22 or Dr. Strangelove. But the iconoclastic writer’s profane, fantastical, sometimes horrifying, and deeply humanist world is singularly his own. Jump in and take the ride.
