Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket ...

By exploring the novel's internal strategies and its brilliant integrations of background information, Moore illustrates how Gravity's Rainbow remains movingly humane, as its author, the agonized mediator of a bewildering field of cultural ...

Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

Beginning with an introduction summarizing critical reaction to Pynchon's fiction and to Gravity's Rainbow in particular, this volume contains eight original essays exploring different aspects of the novel.

This guide is guaranteed to help you finish and make sense of Gravity's Rainbow -- all in a concise and easy-to-read format.

A collection of critical essays on Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" arranged in chronological order of publication.