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Others show up briefly, in vignettes, and are never seen again. With this new guide, gravity s rainbow can be understood by the average reader. He received the national book award for gravity s rainbow in 1974 frank miller is the author and illustrator of sin city and the 1986 batman comic the dark knight returns, which is regarded as a milestone in. Pynchons new book is thus an eventit breaks seven years of silence and allays the fear that he might never go beyond his early success.
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