A Gravity's Rainbow Companion - Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel

A completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.