9780224009607

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

ISBN 10: 0224009605 / 0-224-00960-5
ISBN 13: 9780224009607
Publisher: Cape
Publication Date: 1973

Editorial Reviews:
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"We're accustomed to circular and linear stories, but [Pynchon's] is structured in the shape of Poisson's ratio--a bunch of unrelated fragments come together, form a cohesive arc, then scatter as they descend. Pynchon blends all manner of fact, fiction, characters, relationships, and metaphors into this metastructure."

Lisa Goldman, Wired, January 1996

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"I've been turning pages day and night, watching my fingers go ink black, I've been bleeding from paper cuts, reading 'Gravity's Rainbow.' Forests have gone to the blade for this novel. Don't mourn the trees; read the book. 'Gravity's Rainbow' will be compared with 'Ulysses' and with 'Duck Soup.'"

Geoffrey Wolff, San Francisco Examiner

 
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Book Description: 1973. Soft cover. Book Condition: VG. 1973, Viking Press, 1st PB ed., 760pp, VG (spine faded, edges rubbed, small stain -3/4"- on front cover). Bookseller Inventory # 1972

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Book Description: Jonathan Cape, London., 1973. First U.K. edition. Wrappers issue. Octavo. 760 pages.Spine and cover edges a little creased. There is an excess of glue at the inner front hinge, this being a production fault. Very good indeed. Bookseller Inventory # PYNCHONT000602

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Book Description: Cape. Book Condition: Good. 0224009605 Used, in good condition. Book only. May have interior marginalia or previous owner's name. Bookseller Inventory # 0224009605

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Book Description: Cape, London, 1973. Softcover. First Edition. The first British softcover edition of Pynchon's landmark third novel, winner of the National Book Award as well as the William Dean Howells Medal for the best work of fiction by an American over a five-year span. Gravity's Rainbow became the benchmark for postmodern American fiction upon publication and secured its mysterious and reclusive author's place in the postwar American literary pantheon. Issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition. Bookplate of Ray Roberts inside the front cover. Shallow corner crease; near fine in wrappers. A very nice copy, with none of the spine fading typical to this title. Quite uncommon. Bookseller Inventory # 028514

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Book Description: Cape, 1973. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near fine copy in la very good+ wrapper which is not price clipped with some wear to the top of the spine. A lovely beautiful copy of a very scarce book. THIS IS A SPECIAL SALE PRICE. Bookseller Inventory # 000286

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Book Description: The Viking Press, New York, 1973. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Marc Getter (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. Dark orange cloth covered boards have red outlined lettering to the spine of the book. There is an indented arch on the front cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The bottom front spine joint has a small chip missing where the spine joint connects to the front pastedown. The top edge of the text block has been stained orange (top stain). The foredge of the text block has some beginning toning and foxing. The top edge of the dust jacket at the top spine end has several beginning edge nicks and tears with some associated rolling and wrinkling. The front dust jacket cover has one crease / scratch by the top edge towards the spine joint. The dust jacket flap has been price clipped. Book code 0273 is at the bottom corner of the front dust jacket flap. The rear cover of the book includes the SBN (ISBN) number in white print underneath the Viking Press information. There is some beginning rolling and nicking to the top rear edge of the dust jacket and the top rear dust jacket flap joint as well. "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it's all theatre. There are no lights inside the cars. No lights anywhere. Above him lift girders old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above that would let the light of day through. But it's night. He's afraid of the way the glass will fall - soon - it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace. But coming down in total blackout, without one glint of light, only great invisible crashing.". Bookseller Inventory # 25004

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Book Description: Cape, 1973. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near fine copy in like wrapper which is not price clipped. A truely beautiful copy of a very scarce book. THIS IS A SPECIAL SALE PRICE. Bookseller Inventory # 000285

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Book Description: cape,uk, 1973. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. uk1st.ediiton.1st.printing.an unread copy.NO TEARS,NO PRICECLIPPING.A LITTLE SHELF WEAR WITH VERY LIGHT PAGE EDGE BROWNING.THIS COPY IS FROM CAPE AND HAS SMALL RED "EDITORIAL DEPT.PLEASE RETURN" ON FEP.A REALLY NICE COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF THE LAST CENTURY.NEAR FINE HARDBACK IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAPPER. Bookseller Inventory # ddshelf

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Book Description: Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. The first British edition of Pynchon's landmark third novel, winner of the National Book Award as well as the William Dean Howells Medal for the best work of fiction by an American over a five-year span. Gravity's Rainbow secured its reclusive author's place in the postwar American literary pantheon. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 911177

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