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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow
Author: Thomas Pynchon
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 sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, ref...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140283389
ISBN-10: 0140283382
Pages: 776
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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