Gravity's Rainbow
About this book
Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic“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.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.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 49955 readers · 1160 pages · ≈ 21 h 29 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Gravity's Rainbow?
About ≈ 21 h 29 m — 1160 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Gravity's Rainbow?
1160 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Gravity's Rainbow?
It sits on the Biography & Memoir, Science Fiction, History shelves.
Is Gravity's Rainbow in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does Gravity's Rainbow take place?
It is set in Europe.
Who wrote Gravity's Rainbow?
Thomas Pynchon.