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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)
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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Destinations, frais et délaisVendeur : GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. N° de réf. du vendeur 5F24_12_0670348325
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Vendeur : Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1991 Viking Press hard cover - reissued edition - different dust jacket and cover from the 1973 Viking edition - rare to come by - ink makr on bottom closed page edge - minor staining to top closed page edge - otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean - now in mylar cover - enjoy this unique edition. N° de réf. du vendeur 2307080001
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Vendeur : ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Sixth printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Fading to spine. A few spots to fore-edge. No notes, inscriptions or underlining to text. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.3. N° de réf. du vendeur 1577022180
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Vendeur : ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Slight water spot to top edge, stamp to all edges, interior stamps as shown, pocket to rear pastedown, textblock clean. Covers soiled. Facsimile dust jackets available from other sellers. 2.3. N° de réf. du vendeur 1571612373
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Vendeur : Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Book Club Edition. Bright, crisp dust jacket with gently ruffled corners and spine ends in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid orange boards with sharp corners, bright lettering to spine strip, orange top edge, previous owner's name to front end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout. Book club edition, "First Published in 1973." with no subsequent publishing dates, "slug" at bottom of rear board in the shape of a maple leaf indicating that it is a Canadian book club book. N° de réf. du vendeur 003823
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Vendeur : Reiner Books, Minneapolis, MN, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. ] Viking "first" statement on the copyright page + NAP (no additional printings) but this is the Canadian Book Club Edition with un-priced dj flap and a small maple leaf impressed into the back cover at the lower edge near the spine. Hardback, tall octavo, appx 5 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches (15.1 x 22.2 cm), weighs in at 2 pounds 2 ounces (964 grams), bound in full red-orange cloth with front cover blind stamp & spine titling in red, 760 pages, VG or better in like dj (dj now in protective mylar). Book itself clean and tight, no names, no writing, no foxing, no hinge discoloration, barely much at all for any general wear (very light bump lower corner back cover about unnoticeable + very small bump crinkle on the front joint at heel of spine). DJ clean, no corner clips, nice interior flaps, barely any spine fading, front panel quite nice w/o being flawless, rather minor surface rubbing spine and back panel, two very small edge splits heel of spine & a short (5/16ths inch) edge split lower edge back cover. Repair has been neatly made to the result of a small bindery flub (and 4 or 5 step-by-step photos are available of the repair process). Rear pastedown (beneath the rear interior dj flap) had not been fully glued into place along the top edge incl the top corner which had resulted in a small top corner of the pastedown somehow being folded under and stuck to the rear board by the pastedown glue. That small corner had to be freed and cleaned up (still shows the fold-under crease & a little discoloration that are not visible except when examining beneath the dj flap) + the rear free endpaper had adhered to the fold-under by a tiny spot of glue very near the rfep's fore-edge and about a 1/2 inch down from its top edge. The rfep popped loose easily with almost no visible after-effects other than an appx 1/8th inch surface thin visible when held up to the light. Due to size International order will require additional shipping charges. RWR5 Fiction Literature. N° de réf. du vendeur 07460
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Vendeur : Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. First edition. A bit faded along the spine, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, brief marginalia on two pages, light rippling to the latter two hundred pages of the text block, else good in red cloth. No dust jacket. ; 760 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 97614
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Vendeur : AwardWinningBooks, Spring Branch, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : New. Board edge fade, remainder mark. 1991 reprint with a new facsimile jacket (not the original). N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1685504264677
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Vendeur : Reeds Reads, Chicago, IL, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd Edition. this copy is protected in a mylar cover. There is some foxing in page edges. Remainder mark on bottom of book pages. See photos for best description. Any questions just ask. N° de réf. du vendeur 5442025
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Vendeur : Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 2nd. 760pp.; HB quarter-bound; gray beige w/maroon & silver; light sun, top edge; clean, tight pgs. DJ burgundy w/white & blue pic. cover; light sun on spine. 1991 reprint Pynchon's satire involving the V-2 rocket. 8.75x5.75" isbn 9780670348329. N° de réf. du vendeur 058451
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