Slow Learner: Early Stories

Thomas Pynchon

Slow Learner: Early Stories
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 April 1995
Pages
208
ISBN
9780099532514

Slow Learner: Early Stories

Thomas Pynchon

A collection of early work from one of America’s most acclaimed, original and dazzling writers.

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

‘ This volume not only collects five early works but offers an easygoing, seemingly vulnerable 20-page introduction by the vanishing author himself’ New York Times

‘Possibly the most accomplished writer of prose in English since James Joyce’ London Review of Books

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