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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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- ÉditeurJonathan Cape Ltd
- Date d'édition1973
- ISBN 10 0224009621
- ISBN 13 9780224009621
- ReliureBroché
- Langueanglais
- Nombre de pages768
- Coordonnées du fabricantnon disponible
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GRAVITY'S RAINBOW [First UK edition - wrappers issue]
Edité par
Jonathan Cape, London, 1973
ISBN 10 : 0224009621
ISBN 13 : 9780224009621
Ancien ou d'occasion
Soft cover
Edition originale
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. Marc Getter [Cover design] (illustrateur). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in the UK as a paperback original (PBO) with a smaller hardcover issue intended mainly for libraries. ***A very good copy in glossy illustrated card covers priced at £1.95 on the back flap. The covers are unmarked, and largely uncreased, with just minimal edge wear. There is a light crease to the top corner of the front cover, and there are light vertical reading creases to the spine. The orange colour is faded to near-white on the spine, and to a yellow on the back cover near to the spine. There is slight marking and wear the bottom edge of the page block. Internally the book is near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. No creases. Pages clean and bright. There is no cracking to the binding [which is often found with this huge paperback] and the binding is nice and square. [Please see scans] ***760 pages. 204 mm x 138 mm. ***'If I were banished to the moon tomorrow and could take only five books along, this would have to be one of them.' - New York Times. ***'It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting, and massive novel by a remarkable mind and talent.' - Time [Review quotes taken from the back cover] ***'"Gravity's Rainbow" is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device, the Schwarzgerät ("black device"), which is slated to be installed in a rocket with the serial number "00000." Traversing a wide range of knowledge, Gravity's Rainbow transgresses boundaries between high and low culture, between literary propriety and profanity, and between science and speculative metaphysics. It shared the 1974 US National Book Award for Fiction with "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Although selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Advisory Board was offended by its content, some of which was described as "'unreadable,' 'turgid,' 'overwritten' and in parts 'obscene'". No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction that year. The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Time named "Gravity's Rainbow" one of its "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 and it is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest American novels ever written.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the true first edition, published in the UK as a paperback original. There was also a much scarcer simultaneous hardback edition, aimed mainly at public libraries. Both first editions are very hard to find now, and the paperback issue is especially prone to damage, as it is so bulky. Most copies have damaged covers and sometimes cracked bindings. This copy is one of the better-preserved of the surviving copies. Scarce thus. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 8144x
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GRAVITY'S RAINBOW [First UK edition - wrappers issue]
Edité par
Jonathan Cape, London, 1973
ISBN 10 : 0224009621
ISBN 13 : 9780224009621
Ancien ou d'occasion
Soft cover
Edition originale
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Évaluation du vendeur 5 sur 5 étoiles
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. Marc Getter [Cover design] (illustrateur). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in the UK as a paperback original (PBO) with a smaller hardcover issue intended mainly for libraries. ***A very good copy in glossy illustrated card covers priced at £1.95 on the back flap. The covers are unmarked, and largely uncreased, with just minimal edge wear. The corners are remarkably uncreased. There are light vertical reading creases to the spine, and the orange colour is faded to pale yellow on the spine. There is some uneven fading also to the top edge of the front cover, and the margins of the front and back covers near to the spine. The page block edges are nice and clean. Internally the book is near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. No creases. Pages clean and bright. There is no cracking to the binding [which is often found with this huge paperback] and the binding is nice and square - just slightly curved from reading at the spine. [Please see scans] ***760 pages. 204 mm x 138 mm. ***'If I were banished to the moon tomorrow and could take only five books along, this would have to be one of them.' - New York Times. ***'It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting, and massive novel by a remarkable mind and talent.' - Time [Review quotes taken from the back cover] ***'"Gravity's Rainbow" is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device, the Schwarzgerät ("black device"), which is slated to be installed in a rocket with the serial number "00000." Traversing a wide range of knowledge, Gravity's Rainbow transgresses boundaries between high and low culture, between literary propriety and profanity, and between science and speculative metaphysics. It shared the 1974 US National Book Award for Fiction with "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Although selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Advisory Board was offended by its content, some of which was described as "'unreadable,' 'turgid,' 'overwritten' and in parts 'obscene'". No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction that year. The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Time named "Gravity's Rainbow" one of its "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 and it is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest American novels ever written.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the true first edition, published in the UK as a paperback original. There was also a much scarcer simultaneous hardback edition, aimed mainly at public libraries. Both first editions are very hard to find now, and the paperback issue is especially prone to damage, as it is so bulky. Most copies have damaged covers and sometimes cracked bindings. This copy is one of the better-preserved of the surviving copies. Scarce thus. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 8449
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