PYNCHON, Thomas.
Gravity’s Rainbow.
New York: The Viking Press, [1973].
8vo., pp. 760; original orange cloth, lettered in red on spine, top edge stained orange; an excellent, almost-fine copy in a clean, bright dust-jacket with a slightly sunned spine.
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Gravity’s Rainbow.
First edition. ‘Gravity’s Rainbow is literally indescribable, a tortured cadenza of lurid imaginings and total recall that goes on longer than you can quite believe’, wrote critic Michael Wood on first publication of this, Pynchon’s magnum opus:
‘It is crowded, technical, serious, self-indulgent, frivolous, and very heavy going. It doesn’t let up. [And yet] Pynchon’s mind is so fertile and engaging that it doesn’t matter if his books seem stilted now and again. The mind is plainly not stilted, indeed I wonder whether it could ever find a book to fit it, whether it is even, in the end, a writer’s mind at all, and not a mind of some general, undefined brilliance which has happened to find itself writing’ (New York Review of Books, March, 1973).
