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May 07, 2016 for both the original hardcover and paperback versions of gravitys rainbow, the differences between the true first editions and the book club editions are fairly subtle, but easy to spot. Winner of the 1974 national book award, gravitys rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as joyces ulysses was to the first. Both works use a specific period from recent history 1956 and the last year of the second world war as a base for a broadranging examination of western culture. The hundreds of characters are difficult to follow, the plot is nonsensical, sex is graphically depicted, drugs are smoked out of a kazoo and a poor light bulb goes through many humiliating experiences. Gravitys rainbow by thomas pynchon conceptual fiction. Rare first edition of gravity s rainbow by thomas pynchon. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. The title compares the v2 rocket s path made by the force of gravity to a rainbow. A pagebypage, at times linebyline, guide to the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural allusions, anthropological details, jokes and arcane puns in which pynchon s novel abounds. The germans used the v2 weapon during world war ii.
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Gravity s rainbow is a fiction that makes reference to real, historical events, such as world war ii. Gravitys rainbow, read by george guidall the new york times. Gravitys rainbow page by page this pagebypage annotation is organized by sections, as delineated by the seven squares sprockets which separate each section. When the viking press published thomas pynchons gravitys rainbow in 1973, it simultaneously issued 4,000 hardbacks and 16,000 paperbacks. But it also grafts onto that history a number of improbable fictions.
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