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Gravity's Rainbow

By Thomas Pynchon

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| Paperback | 9780143039945

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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 technologyContinue

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Wonderful lovely and amazing, like a rainbow in the sky.

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Dandani said on Jul 24, 2007 | 1 feedback

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A screaming comes across the sky

Musical, paranoia, comedy, London, thriller, Masons, war, irony, incest, physics, Tarots, Africa, friendship, masochism, literature, heresy, love, I Ching, engineering, politics, light bulbs, fantasy, kazoos, psychoanalysis, Germany, Christianity, conspiracy, drugs, jazz, paganism, kamikaze, Kabbala ... (continue)

Musical, paranoia, comedy, London, thriller, Masons, war, irony, incest, physics, Tarots, Africa, friendship, masochism, literature, heresy, love, I Ching, engineering, politics, light bulbs, fantasy, kazoos, psychoanalysis, Germany, Christianity, conspiracy, drugs, jazz, paganism, kamikaze, Kabbalah, genocide, linguistics, quests, U.S.A., psychic, rockets, sex, immortality, Kazaks, philosophy, stream of consciousness, blues, doom...
This and much more you can find in this incredibly brilliant and encyclopedic book, which will leave you puzzled but with a sense of immensity and genius you'll hardly experience with any other reading.
I know this is a bit confusing, so for better explanations - from people who write things because they have read and studied this book for a long time now - I refer you to:
http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com
and
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/
Or you could read my commentary in Italian on this book here: http://giulemani.motime.com/post/751264/L%27Arcobaleno+…
Good luck!

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Zugi ☯ said on Jul 11, 2009 | Add your feedback

An incredible, enormous world, too much ambitious perhaps. But there are wonderful pages, and reflections of an amazing depth. For sure, a reading for a brave reader...

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Orso Paziente said on Oct 18, 2010 | Add your feedback