A collection of early work from one of America's most acclaimed writers.
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.
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*
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