Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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Book name:	Gravity’s Rainbow (2024)
Category:	Fiction
Author:	Thomas Pynchon
Pages:	776 pages
ISBN13:	0143039946
ISBN:	0143039946
Language:	English
Publication data:	Oct. 31, 2006, 8 a.m.

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 20th 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.

About the author

Thomas Pynchon

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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the … Read more