Gravity's Rainbow Paperback - 1987
by Thomas Pynchon
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Readers describe a demanding, months-long read whose rewards and frustrations are equally outsized. Admirers praise the prose, intellectual sweep, and moments of startling beauty, with some calling it a masterpiece; detractors cite a shapeless, over-digressive structure, thin character connection, and graphic sexual content and slurs that feel gratuitous. Many note it requires intense concentration and multiple passes, with a few finding the ending and certain vignettes satisfying. Some also criticize its male-centric perspective and the sense that it flatters a narrow audience.
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- Title Gravity's Rainbow
- Author Thomas Pynchon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 768
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Publication date September 1, 1987
- ISBN 9780140106619 / 0140106618
- Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.51 x 1.63 in (21.49 x 14.00 x 4.14 cm)
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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