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"The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for quadrille paper" (Irish Examiner)
"Pynchon’s masterpiece." (John Sutherland Guardian)
"This stunner is already classed with Moby Dick and Ulysses. Set in Europe at the end of WWII, with the V2 as the White Whale, the novel's central characters race each other through a treasure hunt of false clues, disguises, distractions, horrific plots and comic counterplots to arrive at the formula which will launch the Super Rocket... Impossible here to convey the vastness of Pynchton's range, the brilliance of his imagery, the virtuosity of his style and his supreme ability to incorporate the cultural miasma of modern life" (Vogue)
"Pynchon leaves the rest of the American lierary establishment at the starting gate...the range over which he moves is extraordinary, not simply in terms of ideas explored but also in the range of emotions he takes you through" (Time Out)
"Entering this enormous novel is like buying a ticket for the ghost train and plunging into a world of metaphysical illusion, where you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel" (Financial Times)
Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
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Gravity's rainbow
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Viking, 1973
ISBN 10 : 0224009605
ISBN 13 : 9780224009607
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Vendeur : Solr Books, Lincolnwood, IL, Etats-Unis
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Etat : good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition. N° de réf. du vendeur BCV.0224009605.G
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Gravity's Rainbow
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1973
ISBN 10 : 0224009605
ISBN 13 : 9780224009607
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Vendeur : Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. 1st Edition. First British edition: first published in Great Britain in 1973, stated. Bound in brown boards with gold lettering on the spine; top page edges tinted gray (here still fairly dark). The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends lightly bumped. The dust jacket is clipped at each corner but the original price of 3.95 pounds remains at the bottom of the front flap; some edgewear; Brodart protected. N° de réf. du vendeur 013659
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