Why Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow', now 50 years old, is the 'Iliad' of our times

The book’s deepest desire to sing of the “multitudes who are passed over by God and History” has rightly accorded it a place among Dante, Milton and Homer.

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