Gravitys Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Gravitys Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
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Gravity's Rainbow

Author: Thomas Pynchon

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 40 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/16/2014

Synopsis

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.

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.

About The Author

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V.; The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity’s Rainbow; Slow Learner, a collection of short stories; Vineland; Mason & Dixon; Against the Day; Inherent Vice; Bleeding Edge; and Shadow Ticket. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.George Guidall is one of the foremost narrators in the audiobook industry, having recorded more than 800 unabridged novels. His 40-year career includes leading roles on- and off-Broadway and numerous appearances in film and television. He has won an Obie Award for best performance.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on September 09, 2010

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A MAN IN WW2 HE GETS ERECTIONS.......more

Goodreads review by Vit on June 30, 2024

Gravity's Rainbow is a rocket launched into the zenith of the literary sky… Gravity's Rainbow is picaresque, enigmatic, obscene and labyrinthine. It is all things postmodern tumbled in the huge motley heap. They say that amongst the more than four hundred of characters in the novel there is no protago......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 06, 2023

[August 2020] Rereading this now in my Pulitzer quest. Wow, as amazingly confusing as the first time around! This is of course the Pynchon pinnacle, the summit of his fame, the cornerstone of his work. So much so that he fell silent for about 14 years after writing it (leading me to wonder if DeLillo......more

Goodreads review by Manny on November 14, 2012

ITS ABOUT A SECRET ROCKET PROJECT IN WW II BUT I THINK SOME OF IT IS A DREAM BECAUSE IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE. THE AUTHOR IS VERY CLEVER.......more

Goodreads review by Barry on October 17, 2014

You know that very brief moment after you wake up in the morning? That moment when you're not sleeping but you're not yet awake. You kind of know what's going but you're not fully aware. You're in conciousness limbo. When you read Gravity's Rainbow you fall into this conciousness limbo. You read the......more

Awards

  • National Book Award
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