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Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published in various sources between 1959 and 1964. The book is also notable for its introduction, written by Pynchon.
An introduction to the collection of Pynchon's own early, previously published short stories. [8] In the 20-page preface, Pynchon reflects on the development of his writing, with autobiographical details that have made it a rare source of information about his life. [ 38 ]
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Pynchon, the great, press-shy postmodern novelist, will become an open book late next year, when the Huntington makes his papers available to scholars Huntington Library acquires the papers of ...
This story, significantly reworked by Pynchon, appears as Chapter 3 of V. "The Secret Integration" (1964), Pynchon's last published short story, is a sensitively handled coming-of-age tale in which a group of young boys face the consequences of the American policy of racial integration.
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by the American author Thomas Pynchon.It was published on April 27, 1966, by J. B. Lippincott & Co. [1] The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows Oedipa Maas, a young Californian woman who begins to embrace a conspiracy theory as she possibly unearths a centuries-old feud between two mail distribution companies.
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963. [1] It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveler named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious ...
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