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Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon.The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.
Pynchon, age 16, in his high school senior portrait. Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, [5] one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996), a nurse.
The world Gravity’s Rainbow was born into on February 28, 1973: a post-Kennedy, post-MLK, Vietnam and Nixon era in which cynicism, fatalism, suspicion, and paranoia bloomed. 1973 was the year ...
"Gravity's Rainbow" is a song by British band Klaxons, from their debut album Myths of the Near Future. It is named after Thomas Pynchon's novel.The song was first released on Angular Records as a double A-side with "The Bouncer" in March 2006 and was limited to 500 copies on 7" vinyl only. [1]
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"Everybody Lay Down" was released as a radio single from Gravity's Rainbow and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. The senior director of album promotion for Chrysalis/EMI, Neil Lasher, told Billboard in 1993, "When I started traveling around the country talking about Pat, I was told that some of her older stuff wasn't being played anymore, and that the blues album [] was ...
A Lucid Gravity fully electric EV car is displayed during the Geneva Motor Show 2024 at Palexpo on Feb. 26, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland. (John Keeble/Getty Images) (John Keeble via Getty Images)
Gravity's Rainbow is the ninth studio album and tenth album overall by American singer Pat Benatar. It was released in 1993 on Chrysalis Records . The album is named after Thomas Pynchon 's 1973 novel of the same name , but was not otherwise directly inspired by the novel.