Bibliograph

Gravity's rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

Type

Label

Gravity's rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Gravity's rainbow

Oclc number

69021071

Responsibility statement

Thomas Pynchon

Series statement

Penguin classics deluxe edition

Summary

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. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II, and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator