num_pages: 760
description: 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.Gravity's Rainbow shared the 1974 National Book Award with A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (split award). That same year, the Pulitzer Prize fiction panel unanimously recommended Gravity's Rainbow for the award, but the Pulitzer board vetoed the jury's recommendation, describing the novel as "unreadable", "turgid", "overwritten", and in parts "obscene". (Kihss 1974) (No Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded and finalists were not announced before 1980.) In 1975, Pynchon declined the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
language: English
title: Gravity's Rainbow
titlecomplete: Gravity's Rainbow
characters: Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, Pig Bodine, Edward W.A. "Ned" Pointsman, Katje Borgesius, Captain Blicero, Pirate Prentice, Roger Mexico
genres: American, Unfinished, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Classics, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 42929
places: Germany, London, England, France
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: William Dean Howells Medal, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award, awardedAt: 1609488000000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Bestes Hörspiel, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Penguin Books