A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book.
Thomas Pynchon was born in Long Island, USA in 1937. He took a
scholarship at Cornell University and studied Engineering before
switching to study English. He has served in the United States Navy
and worked as a technical writer at Boeing.
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.
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.
*Guardian*
Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento
mori.
*The Times*
[A] masterpiece
*ShortList*
Gravity’s Rainbow will deeply reward any intelligent reader’s
focus. It’s a singularly miraculous achievement of post-war
literature
*Telegraph*
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'*
Thomas Pynchon, the greatest, wildest and most infuriating author
of his generation.
*Guardian*
Pynchon is both the US's most serious and most funny writer.
*Independent*
Gravity's Rainbow is bonecrushingly dense, compulsively elaborate,
silly, obscene, funny, tragic, pastoral, historical, philosophical,
poetic, grindingly dull, inspired, horrific, cold, bloated, beached
and blasted…[Pynchon’s] novel is in this sense a work of paranoid
genius, a magnificent necropolis that will take its place amidst
the grand detritus of our culture. Its teetering structure is
greater by far than the many surrounding literary shacks and
hovels.
*New York Times*
He is almost a mathematician of prose, who calculates the least and
the greatest stress each word and line, each pun and ambiguity, can
bear, and applies his knowledge accordingly and virtually without
lapses, though he takes many scary, bracing linguistic risks. Thus
his remarkably supple diction can first treat of a painful and
delicate love scene and then roar, without pause, into the sounds
and echoes of a drudged and drunken orgy.
*New Yorker*
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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