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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

About 517 pages (155,178 words) in 23 products

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Gravity’s Rainbow Quotes
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Gravity's Rainbow is an epic postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973. It is widely regarded as Pynchon's magnum opus. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers around the...


Author Biography

Name: Thomas Pynchon
Birth Date: May 8, 1937
Place of Birth: Glen Cove, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Thomas Pynchon
1365 words, approx. 4.6 pages
The American novelist Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) is best known for V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon, complex fictions noted for their encyclopedic erudition and parodistic, labyrinthine plots. Thomas Ruggle...
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Biography of Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon, (Jr.)
15946 words, approx. 53.2 pages
Thomas Pynchon 's ancestral roots go deep into the soil of America--an appropriate genealogy for a writer whose overriding concern in his fictional project is the construction of "America" and the necessary conditions for living within that construction....
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Biography of Thomas (Ruggles) Pynchon, (Jr.)
4071 words, approx. 13.6 pages
Thomas Pynchon 's willingness to address the most important cultural and social issues makes him an important writer. He depicts the plight of contemporary humanity caught in, rather than sustained by, a culture that celebrates technology and death rathe...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Gravity’s Rainbow Information
4,848 words, approx. 16 pages
Gravity's Rainbow is an epic postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28 1973. 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...


News and Journals
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Quadrant
Rainbows.
09/01/1998: 1,516 words, approx. 5 pages
City dwellers look at a limited sky. Looking upwards while traveling forwards is hazardous, in the city, and city people can rarely see the stars at night or birds by day. The most impressive sky sight is a rainbow, especially when seen in the...
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The Stranger
Rainbow
05/31/2007: 303 words, approx. 1 pages
BORIS WITH MICHIO KURIHARA Rainbow (Drag City) **** Every Boris record is a journey to the center of the mind. What separates Rainbow is that it navigates the nervous system with psychoactive efficiency instead of strip-mining every cell in its...
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The New York Observer
Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 773 words, approx. 3 pages
Years have vintages too: It doesn’t take a sommelier to recommend a 1776, an 1815, a 1989. Conversely, who’d want to lay in a year like, let us say, 1973? It’s the nadir of that supposed nadir of decades, the 1970’s. Watergate roiled the nation....
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The New York Observer
Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 771 words, approx. 3 pages
Years have vintages too: It doesn’t take a sommelier to recommend a 1776, an 1815, a 1989. Conversely, who’d want to lay in a year like, let us say, 1973? It’s the nadir of that supposed nadir of decades, the 1970’s. Watergate roiled the...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Susan Strehle
16,739 words, approx. 56 pages
In the following essay, Strehle sees Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as a novel that renders a non-Newtonian world full of discontinuity, instability, and quantum unpredictability.
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Critical Essay by Lawrence C. Wolfley
12,426 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Wolfley examines the thematic structure of Gravity's Rainbow.
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Critical Essay by Patrick McHugh
12,418 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, McHugh examines Pynchon's construction of white male identity in Gravity's Rainbow.
 


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