Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." The New Republic

"An event . . . Gravity's Rainbow is longer, darker and more difficult than [Pynchon's] first two books; in fact it is the longest, most difficult and most ambitious novel to appear here since Nabokov's Ada four years ago; its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville and Faulkner." Richard Locke, The New York Times Book Review

"Literally indescribably, a tortured cadenza of lurid imaginings and total recall . . . Its people, like the characters in V., are marginal people, layabouts, dropouts, gangsters, failed scientists, despairing spiritualists, spies, SS men, dancing girls, faded movie stars." Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books

"A funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge and virtuosity a metaphysical, phenomenological, technological Mad Comic." R.Z. Sheppard, Time Magazine