Sep. 14th, 2018

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Very big important literary author writes 800 pages about penises.


Gravity's Rainbow

Penguin, 1973, 776 pages



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 20th 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.


So much penis. And excrement. And drugs. And penis. Lots of penis. )

Also by Thomas Pynchon: My reviews of The Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice.




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