Discover Thomas Pynchon''s brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. ''The greatest, wildest author of his generation'' Guardian We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to the earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn''t really begin to cover it. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As The Financial Times said, ''you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel.'' Forty years since its publication, Gravity''s Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.

Vorwort
A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book.

Autorentext
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner (a collection of short stories), Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Klappentext

A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this classic, experimental novel set during WWII. 'Pynchon is both the US's most serious and most funny writer.' Thomas Leveritt, "Independent"

Zusammenfassung
We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it.