Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow. New York: Viking Press, 1973. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt and rainbow colors, yellow endpapers.
Condition: A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket is unclipped, with the original $15.00 price present on the front flap. Beautiful, vibrant dust jacket protected in mylar. Some very minor foxing as pictured. All pages inside are clear and free of any writing.
Pynchon’s sprawling postmodern masterpiece, winner of the 1974 National Book Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—though the Pulitzer board ultimately withheld the award, calling the book “unreadable,” “turgid,” and “obscene.” A cult classic of American literature, Gravity’s Rainbow is a dizzying, darkly comic, and ambitious exploration of paranoia, war, technology, and entropy in the aftermath of WWII. One of the defining novels of 20th-century American fiction, and increasingly scarce in collectible condition.
