Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page features the work of an Ivy League-educated, punk-rock, porn-star visual artist who has created a drawing for every page of a novel that is widely considered to be the most difficult work of literature ever produced in English.

Thomas Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow (1973) has been called a modernFinnegans Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers experience of the twentieth-century classic. Smith has created more than 750 pages of drawings, paintings, and photoseach derived from a page of Pynchons novel. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of wara burned-out Konigstiger tank, a melted machine guncoexist alongside such fantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the stumbling bird and Grigori the octopus. Smith has said he aimed to be as literal as possible in interpreting Gravitys Rainbow, but his images are as imaginative and powerful as the prose they honor.