Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe)

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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe)Thomas PynchonPublisher: Penguin BooksNovember 01 2006EAN: 9780143039945ISBN: 0143039946Items marked as WAREHOUSE may take additional tim e to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.Synopsis: A Penguin Classic 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. This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Show more