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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon, Frank Miller (Illustrator) Paperback, 776 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-14-303994-6 / 0143039946 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303994-5 / 9780143039945 Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 |