Name: slow learner,early stories
Price: 20.03 EUR
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Author: Thomas Pynchon
ISBN: 9780316724432

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Pynchon

Publisher

Back Bay Books

Language

English

Pages

193

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

0316724432

ISBN13

9780316724432

Synopsis "slow learner,early stories"

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

Thomas Pynchon

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De él apenas se sabe que estudió ingeniería y literatura en la Universidad de Cornell, donde fue alumno de Vladimir Nabokov (aunque éste no recordara haberlo tenido en clase), que redactó folletos técnicos para la compañía aérea Boeing, que envió a un cómico a recoger el National Book Award y que vive en Nueva York. Tusquets Editores ha publicado la integridad de su obra de ficción.

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