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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (21st Edition) by Thomas Pynchon, Greg Keeler Paperback, 760 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-14-018859-2 / 0140188592 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018859-2 / 9780140188592 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 |