Set at the end of World War Two, featuring a large cast of characters, this novel centers on the design and production of the German V-2 rockets. What is the "black device" that is rumored to be placed in a very special rocket? Where is it going? This award-winning novel is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and...