Gravity's Rainbow

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Connections to Pynchon's wide-spread yet remarkably hidden family history are scattered throughout this masterwork. Well known author and urban legend Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Fifth comes from a long line that begins with William Pynchon, founder of the town of Springfield, Massachusetts. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon the Third is more than a footnote to Nathaniel Hawthorne.