ISBN: 1101594659 9781101594650

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 768

<b>Winner of the National Book Award<br><br>"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —<i>The New Republic</i></b><br><br>“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.<br><br><i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i> 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.