Pynchon, Thomas, 1937-2013
Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V 2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phanta...