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Also by Thomas Pynchon:

Bleeding Edge, January 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Inherent Vice, August 2010
Paperback
Inherent Vice, August 2009
Hardcover
Against the Day, January 2007
Audio CD
Against the Day, November 2006
Hardcover
Gravity's Rainbow, November 2006
Paperback
The Crying of Lot 49, November 2006
Paperback
Mason & Dixon, January 2004
Paperback
V., April 1999
Paperback
Vineland, September 1997
Paperback
Slow Learner, May 1985
Paperback

SLOW LEARNER
By: Thomas Pynchon

Early Stories Tag: With an introduction by the author

Back Bay Books
May 1985
On Sale: April 30, 1985
208 pages
ISBN: 0316724432
EAN: 9780316724432
Paperback
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Fiction

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."