{"product_id":"9780099533214","title":"Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon","description":"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 sibilant opening sentence, 'a screaming comes across the sky', heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. Gravity's Rainbow is never a single story, but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. It is a blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes and among the most important novels of our time.   Winner of the National Book Award.;  912 pages; Published: 20\/07\/1995\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9780099533214\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56456999993726,"sku":"9780099533214","price":19.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/1298\/0350\/files\/9780099533214.jpg?v=1761330398","url":"https:\/\/it-book.co.uk\/products\/9780099533214","provider":"IT-Book","version":"1.0","type":"link"}