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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon [Pynchon, Thomas] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. Amazon.com Review 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 , refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky. Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a

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Author

Thomas Pynchon [Pynchon, Thomas]

Publisher

Penguin Books (US)

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670003747

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.03 / 5 (25,522 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14