The Gravity's Rainbow Handbook: A Key to the Thomas Pynchon Novel

Thomas Pynchon has a reputation as a "difficult" author -- but he doesn't have to be! With this new guide, Gravity's Rainbow can be understood by the average reader. Included are: a chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary on the story, a thorough description of all major characters, a biography of Pynchon, suggestions for essay topics, and much more. This guide is guaranteed to help you finish and make sense of Gravity's Rainbow -- all in a concise and easy-to-read format. Whether you are totally new to the book or just want to deepen your understanding, this guide will save you hours of struggle and frustration.

• Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel, 2nd Edition
• V. (Perennial Classics)
• The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
• Mason & Dixon: A Novel
• The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
• Infinite Jest
• Slow Learner: Early Stories
• Against the Day
• Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses