Moodboard: "Gravity's Rainbow" (Thomas Pynchon 1974). 1st addition published by Bantam Books. New York Times article excerpt 1974.

 

"...In choosing it as “one of the three outstanding books published in 1973,” editors of The New York Times Book Review said it was “one of the longest, darkest, most difficult and ambitious novels in years … bonecrushingly dense, compulsively elaborate, silly, obscene, funny, tragic, poetic, dull, inspired, horrific, cold and blasted.”

“The central plot,” they wrote, “concerns the search for a V‐2 rocket a symbol of the sexual love of death, which Pynchon suggests is the driving paranoid force behind modern history...”