Gravity's Rainbow
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Paperback 3 513руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Thomas Pynchon
- Pages
- 912
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- Release date
- July 20, 1995
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-953321-4
- GTIN
- 9780099533214
- Weight, g
- 653
About
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.