Gravity's Rainbow

Author(s): Thomas Pynchon

Fiction

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, "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.


Product Information

A reissue of Thomas Pynchon's classic novel

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland and, most recently, Mason & Dixon. He recieved the national book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

General Fields

  • : 9780099533214
  • : Vintage
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.605
  • : October 1997
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 46mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2005
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Thomas Pynchon
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 912
  • : Modern fiction