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Slow Learner: Early Stories
Thomas Pynchon
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Description for Slow Learner: Early Stories
Paperback. A compilation of five short stories which include: "The Small Rain", "Lowlands", "Entropy", "Under the Rose", and "The Secret Integration". Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V. This edition also contains a revelatory essay on Pynchon's early influences and writing.
The collection consists of five short stories: 'The Small Rain', 'Lowlands', 'Entropy', 'Under the Rose', and 'The Secret Integration', as well as an introduction written by Pynchon himself for the 1984 publication, offering a rare insight into his own views on his work.
'Pynchon at his best' Guardian
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'Possibly the most accomplished writer of prose in English since James Joyce' London Review of Books
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099532514
SKU
V9780099532514
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About Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day and Inherent Vice. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
Reviews for Slow Learner: Early Stories
Possibly the most accomplished writer of prose in English since James Joyce... Sentence by sentence he can do more than any novelist of this century with the resources of the English-American language
London Review of Books
Anything from the most monstrous talent in the post-war West should be pursued in earnest. I've eaten two copies already
Time ... Read more
London Review of Books
Anything from the most monstrous talent in the post-war West should be pursued in earnest. I've eaten two copies already
Time ... Read more