Description
Early short stories by Thomas Pynchon, introduced by the author and praised as an exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers by the New Republic.
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 candor and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early post-Beat era in which the stories were written. Time magazine described this introductory essay as Pynchon's first public gesture toward autobiography.
Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness. --New York Times
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/30/1985
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780316724432
ISBN10: 0316724432
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Absurdist
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 candor and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early post-Beat era in which the stories were written. Time magazine described this introductory essay as Pynchon's first public gesture toward autobiography.
Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness. --New York Times
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/30/1985
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780316724432
ISBN10: 0316724432
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Absurdist
About the Author
Thomas Pynchon is also the author of the novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, and Bleeding Edge.