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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Gravity's Rainbow - Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, ref...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140188592
ISBN-10: 0140188592
Pages: 768
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 18 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 6
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junior8 avatar reviewed Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) on + 12 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Perhaps it was just me..but I could not get into this book. I tried 4 times to read it and I just didn't get it. So I've re-posted it in hopes that someone else will enjoy it!
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