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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback - 2006

by Thomas Pynchon; Frank Miller (Illustrator)

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.


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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.

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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.

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  • Title Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
  • Author Thomas Pynchon; Frank Miller (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Deluxe
  • Pages 784
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York
  • Date 2006-11-01
  • ISBN 9780143039945 / 0143039946
  • Weight 1.78 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.36 x 5.54 x 1.3 in (21.23 x 14.07 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, War stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006044847
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 11/01/2006, Page 123

About the author

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

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.

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