Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Literary Fiction
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
—· 810 p· 1973
Literary Canon20th Century Classicdarkphilosophicalhauntingmysteriousreflectivetense
Overview
About
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.
Pages
810
Viking Press
Linguistic complexity
5/5
Very Dense
Thematic complexity
5/5
Profound
Rating
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Reader feel
Prose10
Historical Synthesis10
Symbolic Density10
Worldbuilding9
Narration9
Plot twists8
Emotional depth6
Pacing4
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