Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 07/1995
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, B-format paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099533214
- Bestellnummer: 2107880
- Umfang: 902 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2000
- Gewicht: 664 g
- Maße: 195 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 50 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.7.1995
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
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.
Beschreibung
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.