Tyrone Slothrop a GI in London in 1944 has a big problem Whenever he gets an erection a Blitz bomb hits Slothrop gets excited & then as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence &a screaming comes across the sky& heralding an angel of death a V-2 rocket Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany Gravity&s Rainbow is never a single story but a proliferation of characters
- Pirate Prentice Teddy Bloat Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Saure Bummer & more
- & events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension It is a blizzard of references to science history high culture & the lowest of jokes & among the most important novels of our time Winner of the National Book Award