Weisenburger, Steven

Traces the life of Margaret Garner, a twenty-two-year-old slave in mid-nineteenth-century Kentucky, focusing on the nation-wide controversy that erupted when Margaret, recaptured after fleeing to Ohio, killed her young daughter rather than have the child returned to slavery.

Presents a page-by-pate annotation of Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow," a World War II story which focuses on the creation of the first military rockets, explaining the author's historical references, jokes, scientific data, slang, and other aspects of the work.