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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.
"Sometimes the Good Guys Finish First" — — The Secret of My Success: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack: 1988 "Jimmy Says" — — Free to Be a Family: 1993 "Temptation" — — B-side of "Somebody's Baby" 1997 "Cry for Love" — — Promo single; B-side of "Strawberry Wine (Life Is Sweet)" 1998 "Love Is a Battlefield" (with Queen ...
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]
Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2005). ISBN 978-1-933045-22-1; Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (graphic representation of novel/illustration) (Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books, 2006).
"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 ...
Klaxons debut single "Gravity's Rainbow" was released on 27 March 2006, through the Angular Recording Corporation. The release was limited to 500 copies and on 7-inch vinyl only. [4] Second single "Atlantis to Interzone" was released on 12 June 2006, [5] before signing with major label Polydor Records two months later. [2]