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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.

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The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for quadrille paper * Irish Examiner *
Pynchon’s masterpiece. -- John Sutherland * Guardian *
Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori. -- John Sutherland * The Times *
[A] masterpiece -- Marc Chacksfield * ShortList *
I read this at 19 or so and just thought, like, f*ck, wow: this is the marker, the pace-setter for the contemporary novel -- Tom McCarthy, author of 'C'

Gravitys Rainbow

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    A Paperback / softback by Thomas Pynchon

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 07/02/2013
      ISBN13: 9780099511755, 978-0099511755
      ISBN10: 0099511754
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for quadrille paper * Irish Examiner *
      Pynchon’s masterpiece. -- John Sutherland * Guardian *
      Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori. -- John Sutherland * The Times *
      [A] masterpiece -- Marc Chacksfield * ShortList *
      I read this at 19 or so and just thought, like, f*ck, wow: this is the marker, the pace-setter for the contemporary novel -- Tom McCarthy, author of 'C'

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