Gravity's Rainbow

Summary

In the closing months of the Second World War and the chaotic Zone of occupied Europe just after, an enormous cast pursues, flees, and theorizes about the V-2 rocket and the systems of power, science, and desire that produced it. Pynchon's encyclopedic novel shifts between slapstick, song, technical disquisition, and hallucinatory vision, refusing any single tone or plot. It is widely considered one of the most ambitious works of American postwar fiction.