Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel

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Overview

Steven provides a page-by-page, often line-by-line, guide to the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes and puns around which Pynchon wove his novel. This is a guide book to one of the most important, and intractable, literary works of our time.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780820310268
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press
  • Publication date: 8/28/1988
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Pages: 360
  • Product dimensions: 6.04 (w) x 9.04 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Steven C. Weisenburger is Mossiker Chair in Humanities and chair of the English Department at Southern Methodist University. His books include Fables of Subversion: Satire and the American Novel, A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel (both Georgia) and Modern Medea.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2007

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    Anyone who knows the works of Thomas Pynchon knows that they twist and turn like a rivers, sometimes breaking off into tributaries, flowing towards another source, a source that can not be found on any map but those of old Turkish Captains (see where I'm going with this). Anyway, the Gravity's Rainbow Companion does a great job in clearing up some of the big mysteries that one finds while trying to read GR. The episode summaries are essential to keeping track of what is going on. Without them, I would have been lost come episode 16. The Companion is just as fun to read as Pynchon's masterpiece. You'll learn something new with each turn of the page. Recommended for anyone who really wants to get the most of of Pynchon's epic.

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