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Slow Learner

Published
Feb 1995
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General Fiction General Fiction
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208

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"An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers." —New Republic

"Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness." —The New York Times


Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon's writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are "The Small Rain," "Low-lands," "Entropy," "Under the Rose," and "The Secret Integration," along with an introduction by Pynchon himself that Time Magazine calls his "first public gesture toward autobiography."

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May 1985 Back Bay ISBN 0316724432
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May 1985 Bantam ISBN 0553249622
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Feb 1995 Vintage (UK) ISBN 0099532514
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Jan 1984 Little, Brown ISBN 0316724424
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Jun 2012 The Penguin Press ISBN B005CRQ4H4
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