TY - BOOK AU - Pynchon, Thomas TI - Gravity's rainbow SN - 9780140188592 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1995///, c1973 CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction KW - Americans - Europe - Fiction KW - Soldiers - Fiction KW - Rocketry - Fiction KW - Europe - Fiction KW - Rockets (Ordnance) - Fiction N2 - Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force ER -