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    <![CDATA[  Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, <em>Gravity’s Rainbow</em> is a postmodern epic, a work   as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em>   was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of   technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might be my favorite novel. I read it over the course of around three months, on my fourth attempt, when I was living in Tallinn, Estonia. Something about residence in a very small European country heightens one's sense of the absurd. I would bring it to lunch at the bars where I dined and star...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/407623">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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