. "Gravity's Rainbow"@en . "Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon.A lengthy, complex novel featuring a large cast of characters, its narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device named the \"Schwarzger\u00E4t\" (\"black device\") that is to be installed in a rocket with the serial number \"00000\".Traversing an immense range of knowledge, the novel transgresses boundaries between high and low culture, between literary propriety and profanity, and between science and speculative metaphysics.The novel shared the 1974 U.S. "@en . . . "760"^^ .