Thomas Pynchon

Broschiertes Buch

Gravity's Rainbow

Beschreibung

We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it.

Autor

Thomas Pynchon was born in Long Island, USA in 1937. He took a scholarship at Cornell University and studied Engineering before switching to study English. He has served in the United States Navy and worked as a technical writer at Boeing. Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow , Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason & Dixon. Against the Day, and most recently Inherent Vice. He received the national book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

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Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 603390
• Seitenzahl: 902
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 135mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780099511755
• ISBN-10: 0099511754
• Artikelnr.: 36638053

Rezensionen

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