{"product_id":"gravitys-rainbow-classics-deluxe-edition-isbn-9780143039945","title":"Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper.\"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An event . . . \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e is longer, darker and more difficult than [Pynchon's] first two books; in fact it is the longest, most difficult and most ambitious novel to appear here since Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eAda\u003c\/i\u003e four years ago; its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville and Faulkner.\" \u003cb\u003e—Richard Locke, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Literally indescribably, a tortured cadenza of lurid imaginings and total recall . . . Its people, like the characters in \u003ci\u003eV.\u003c\/i\u003e, are marginal people, layabouts, dropouts, gangsters, failed scientists, despairing spiritualists, spies, SS men, dancing girls, faded movie stars.\" \u003cb\u003e—Michael Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge and virtuosity — a metaphysical, phenomenological, technological Mad Comic.\" \u003cb\u003e—R.Z. Sheppard, \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Pynchon \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of\u003ci\u003e V.\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGravity’s Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSlow Learner\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories; \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Day\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eInherent Vice\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBleeding Edge\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eShadow Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGravity’s Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e in 1974.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Miller \u003c\/b\u003eis the author and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eSin City\u003c\/i\u003e and the 1986 Batman comic \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight Returns\u003c\/i\u003e, which is regarded as a milestone in the superhero genre.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300691267813,"sku":"NP9780143039945","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143039945.jpg?v=1767728451","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/gravitys-rainbow-classics-deluxe-edition-isbn-9780143039945","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}