Thomas pynchon, frank miller cover design, george guidall, penguin audio. Lengthy, complex, and featuring a large cast of characters, the narrative is set primarily in europe at the end of world war ii, and centers on the design, production and dispatch of v2 rockets by the german military. Review of thomas pynchons gravitys rainbow richard. Hear george guidall read thomas pynchons classic gravitys rainbow. A skilled audiobook performance brings new life to gravitys rainbow at age 41. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and. Gravitys rainbow, thomas pynchons gargantuan parable of rocketry, sex and a whole bunch of other stuff, turned 41 this year six years older than its author when it was first published. Gravitys rainbow is a 1973 novel by american writer thomas pynchon. Written by thomas pynchon, frank miller cover design, audiobook narrated by george guidall. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. After listening to george read, audiobook fans have told him, im thankful for traffic jams and im always coming home with. It is detailed and insightful and is, in fact, a great read before tackling gravitys rainbow for. 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 joyces ulysses was to the first.
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