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What is the rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)?

By Pamela Landy

The rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is the arc a rocket makes from launch to target.

The novel is set in World War II Europe at the time German V-2 rockets were falling on London.

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