Enigmatic American author Thomas Pynchon's classic novel, Gravity's Rainbow. Set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II, the novel centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device, the Schwarzgerät ("black device"), which is slated to be installed in a rocket with the serial number "00000".
Traversing a wide range of knowledge, Gravity's Rainbow crosses boundaries between high and low culture, between literary propriety and profanity, and between science and speculative metaphysics.
Enigmatic American author Thomas Pynchon's classic novel, Gravity's Rainbow. Set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II, the novel centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device, the Schwarzgerät ("black device"), which is slated to be installed in a rocket with the serial number "00000".
Traversing a wide range of knowledge, Gravity's Rainbow crosses boundaries between high and low culture, between literary propriety and profanity, and between science and speculative metaphysics.
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Thomas Pynchon is an American novelist whose work emerged from the scientific, military, and cultural currents of the mid-twentieth century. Born in 1937 on Long Island, New York, he grew up in the shadow of World War II and the early Cold War, environments that would later shape...
10 books in catalog
Thomas Pynchon is an American novelist whose work emerged from the scientific, military, and cultural currents of the mid-twentieth century. Born in 1937 on Long Island, New York, he grew up in the shadow of World War II and the early Cold War, environments that would later shape...
