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 Gravity’s Rainbow Quotes
622 words, approx. 2 pages
 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...
 
| 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... summary from source:
 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.... summary from source:
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...
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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...
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 The New York Observer Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 773 words, approx. 3 pagesYears 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.... summary from source:
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... summary from source:
The New York Observer Scrumptious Pastiche For the Well-Read Cook
12/3/2006: 445 words, approx. 2 pagesI ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago, and so I found I couldn’t force myself to read the whole of Against... summary from source:
The New York Observer Scrumptious Pastiche For the Well-Read Cook
12/3/2006: 444 words, approx. 2 pages I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago, and so I found I couldn’t force myself to read the whole of...
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 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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