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Gravity's rainbow / Thomas Pynchon

by Thomas Pynchon, Jr.

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, this postmodern novel features a sprawling, encyclopedic narrative that analyses the impact of technology on mid-twentieth-century society.

Accession 15738 ISBN 0330242814 Publisher Picador
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