Gravity's rainbow
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Author
Pynchon, Thomas.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2006.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
776 pages ; 22 cm.
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2006.
Language
English
UPC
9780143039945

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General Note
Originally published: U.S.A. : Viking Press, 1973.
Description
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. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II, and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.
Awards
National Book Award, 1973.

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LC Subjects
American fiction -- 20th century.
Americans -- Europe -- Fiction.
Europe -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Rocketry -- Fiction.
Rockets (Ordnance) -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Other Subjects
Science fiction.
War stories.