Slow Learner
  • Published: 4 April 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099532514
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99

Slow Learner

Early Stories

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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
  • Published: 4 April 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099532514
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland, Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and, most recently, Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Also by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow
Vineland
Shadow Ticket
Bleeding Edge
Inherent Vice
Against the Day
Mason & Dixon
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Praise for Slow Learner

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 Out

Thomas Pynchon is the Gargantua of modern fiction... In Slow Learner he breaks cover for the first time with a remarkable open handed portrait of the writer as a young man

Sunday Times

Pynchon at his best

Guardian

Intriguing material for Pynchon fans and critics

Kirkus Review

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 Out

Thomas Pynchon is the Gargantua of modern fiction... In Slow Learner he breaks cover for the first time with a remarkable open handed portrait of the writer as a young man

Sunday Times

Pynchon at his best

Guardian
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