Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem.
Gravity\'s Rainbow is never a single story, but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Ta.
Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
Slothrop gets excited, and then, as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence, \'a screaming comes across the sky\', heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket.
Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits.
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem