Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses 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.
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"But Pynchon’s theory of history offers its own immanent critique. It is attentive to how systems of technology, power, and information shape the world. It is the anti-Great Man theory of history, sympathetic to the stooges, geeks, schemers, and naive dreamers who strive…"
"I was 19 when I underwent my big Pynchon summer and dived into Gravity’s Rainbow. Systems, rebel forces, counter-histories, a little bit of hope – that you could cram so much of the world from page to page was exhilarating to discover."
"In both its style and its content, Gravity’s Rainbow isn’t for everyone — even those who read and appreciate complex literary novels. But no matter how provocative, obscure, and even obscene it may be, Pynchon’s novel makes American literature richer by its existence…"