Gravity's Rainboiv is the third novel by the young American writer THOMAS PYNCHON.
TONY TANNER. Fellow of King's College. Cambridge. and author of several studies of American fiction, explains why he considers this massive 760-page novel not only a worthy successor to V and The Crying of Lot 49. but ' a work of genius which establishes Pynchon as one of the few manifestly major novelists to have emerged in any country since the war.' followed by an interlude