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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Illustrated by Frank Miller
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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.
  • WINNER
    National Book Award
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V.The Crying of Lot 49Gravity’s RainbowSlow Learner, a collection of short stories; VinelandMason & DixonAgainst the Day; and, most recently, Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974. View titles by Thomas Pynchon
Frank Miller is the author and illustrator of Sin City and the 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which is regarded as a milestone in the superhero genre. View titles by Frank Miller

About

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.

Awards

  • WINNER
    National Book Award

Author

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V.The Crying of Lot 49Gravity’s RainbowSlow Learner, a collection of short stories; VinelandMason & DixonAgainst the Day; and, most recently, Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974. View titles by Thomas Pynchon
Frank Miller is the author and illustrator of Sin City and the 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which is regarded as a milestone in the superhero genre. View titles by Frank Miller

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