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Slow Learner
  • Published: 4 April 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099532514
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.00

Slow Learner

Early Stories

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

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is…we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

Thomas Pynchon’s literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, V., but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to Slow Learner, the author reviews his early work with disarming candour and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early post-Beat era in which the stories were written

‘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

‘An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers’ New Republic

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
  • Published: 4 April 1995
  • ISBN: 9780099532514
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.00
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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.

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Also by Thomas Pynchon

Shadow Ticket
Mason & Dixon
Against the Day
Bleeding Edge
Inherent Vice
Vineland
The Crying of Lot 49
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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