In 1974, no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction...The jury had voted unanimously for Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow, but the board vetoed their recommendation calling the novel “obscene,” “overwritten,” “turgid,” and “unreadable.” The jury expressed dismay when they learned of the book’s rejection and protested the board’s decision but to no avail.
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your welcome, I love Thomas Pynchon!
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Gravity's Rainbow used to be my favorite novel. Now my favorites by Pynchon oscillate between Against the Day, Mason & Dixon , and the Crying of Lot 49.