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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Thomas Pynchon
Illustrated by Frank Miller

By Thomas Pynchon
Illustrated by Frank Miller

By Thomas Pynchon

By Thomas Pynchon

By Thomas Pynchon
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By Thomas Pynchon
Read by George Guidall

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Paperback $23.00

Oct 31, 2006 | ISBN 9780143039945

Ebook $14.99

Jun 13, 2012 | ISBN 9781101594650

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Oct 16, 2014 | 2242 Minutes

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    About Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

    A Penguin Classic

    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.

    This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Winner of the 1974 National Book Award

    “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”

    About Gravity’s Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

    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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    V.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    Slow Learner
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    About Thomas Pynchon

    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; and, most recently, Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

    About Frank Miller

    Frank Miller is the author and illustrator of Sin City and the 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which is regarded as a milestone in the superhero genre.

    About Thomas Pynchon

    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; and, most recently, Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

    About Thomas Pynchon

    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; and, most recently, Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Paperback | $23.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Oct 31, 2006 | 784 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143039945

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Penguin Press
    Jun 13, 2012 | 768 Pages | ISBN 9781101594650

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $42.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Oct 16, 2014 | 2242 Minutes | ISBN 9780698151260
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