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Gravity s rainbow, winner of the national book award for fiction in 1974, is in part a fictional elegy and meditation on death and an encyclopedic work that jumps through time. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 776 pages and is available in paperback format. A macarthur fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. But do readers today have the patience to deal with books that are so bloody difficult.
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