Download or read book Angel and Rocket written by Charles Hohmann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study analyzes Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow it in terms of Rilke's Duino Elegies, a text which was a major influence on Pynchon's novel.