Gravity's Rainbow
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Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by
First edition cover design
A 1945 U.S. Army diagram of the V-2 rocket
This May 3, 1945 image of Wernher von Braun (center right) is referred to in the narrative, giving a quite exact timeframe for some events in the book.
An underground tunnel at Mittelwerk in 1945
Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to hist
Gravity's Rainbow
…Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German…
Pynchon in his 1953 yearbook image
Pynchon, aged 16, in his high school senior portrait
V. (1963)