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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2007 |
| Seiten | 912 |
| Format | 13 x 20 x 4,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099533219 |
| EAN | 9780099533214 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09953321EA |
Thomas Pynchon\'s opus magnus, a post-modern masterpiece and a dark satire of twentieth century culture and civilisation from one of the all-time greats of American literature.
Winner of the National Book Award.
Klappentext:
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence, \'a screaming comes across the sky\', heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
Gravity\'s Rainbow is never a single story, but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. It is a blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes and among the most important novels of our time.
Winner of the National Book Award.
Rezension:
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
