Gravity's Rainbow

Praise for “Gravity's Rainbow”

“The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”

“An event . . . Gravity's Rainbow is longer, darker and more difficult than [Pynchon's] first two books; in fact it is the longest, most difficult and most ambitious novel to appear here since Nabokov's Ada four years ago; its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville and Faulkner.”

“Literally indescribably, a tortured cadenza of lurid imaginings and total recall . . . Its people, like the characters in V., are marginal people, layabouts, dropouts, gangsters, failed scientists, despairing spiritualists, spies, SS men, dancing girls, faded movie stars.”