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9780140188592
"We're accustomed to circular and linear stories, but [Pynchon's] is structured in the shape of Poisson's ratio--a bunch of unrelated fragments come together, form a cohesive arc, then scatter as they descend. Pynchon blends all manner of fact, fiction, characters, relationships, and metaphors into this metastructure."Pynchon, Thomas is the author of 'Gravity's Rainbow', published 1995 under ISBN 9780140188592 and ISBN 0140188592.
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