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

Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader p…

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