Gravity’s Rainbow.
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers”: First Edition of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow.
PYNCHON, Thomas.
$1,600.00
Item Number: 147618
New York : The Viking Press, 1973.
First edition of Pynchon’s National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc Getter. A very sharp example.
“Gravity's Rainbow is one of the few truly great novels of the century, and at the same time one of the most disappointing, disturbing, maddening…. One of the most original fictive styles to have been developed since Joyce” (Contemporary Novelists, 1136). It is regarded by many scholars as the greatest American novel published after the end of the second world war, and is "often considered as the postmodern novel, redefining both postmodernism and the novel in general" (Pohllman). Time named it one of its "All-Time 100 Greatest Novels", a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
