Gravity's Rainbow (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

<span><b>Winner of the 1974 National Book Award </b><br><br>“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in <i>The New Republic </i>as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”</span>