Thomas Pynchon's opus magnus, a post-modern masterpiece and a dark
satire of twentieth century culture and civilisation from one of
the all-time greats of American literature.
Winner of the National Book Award.
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day and Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might
have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for
quadrille paper
*Irish Examiner*
Pynchon’s masterpiece.
*Guardian*
Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento
mori.
*The Times*
[A] masterpiece
*ShortList*
This stunner is already classed with Moby Dick and Ulysses. Set in
Europe at the end of WWII, with the V2 as the White Whale, the
novel's central characters race each other through a treasure hunt
of false clues, disguises, distractions, horrific plots and comic
counterplots to arrive at the formula which will launch the Super
Rocket... Impossible here to convey the vastness of Pynchton's
range, the brilliance of his imagery, the virtuosity of his style
and his supreme ability to incorporate the cultural miasma of
modern life
*Vogue*
Pynchon leaves the rest of the American lierary establishment at
the starting gate...the range over which he moves is extraordinary,
not simply in terms of ideas explored but also in the range of
emotions he takes you through
*Time Out*
Entering this enormous novel is like buying a ticket for the ghost
train and plunging into a world of metaphysical illusion, where you
must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the
Novel
*Financial Times*
The best seller described as the kind of Ulysses which Joyce might
have written if he had been a Boeing engineer with a fetish for
quadrille paper * Irish Examiner *
Pynchon's masterpiece. -- John Sutherland * Guardian *
Thomas Pynchon gives us 20th-century fiction's finest memento mori.
-- John Sutherland * The Times *
[A] masterpiece -- Marc Chacksfield * ShortList *
This stunner is already classed with Moby Dick and
Ulysses. Set in Europe at the end of WWII, with the V2 as
the White Whale, the novel's central characters race each other
through a treasure hunt of false clues, disguises, distractions,
horrific plots and comic counterplots to arrive at the formula
which will launch the Super Rocket... Impossible here to convey the
vastness of Pynchton's range, the brilliance of his imagery, the
virtuosity of his style and his supreme ability to incorporate the
cultural miasma of modern life * Vogue *
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