Slow Learner: Early Stories

Pynchon, Thomas - FIRST EDITION HARDBACK

ISBN 10: 0224022830 / ISBN 13: 9780224022835

Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1985

About this Item

Superb hardback first printing/first edition of the Cape edition. This is much scarcer than the US first, especially in this outstanding condition. It looks to be an unread copy. And it is in an unclipped protected jacket.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1633524132666

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Slow Learner: Early Stories
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224022830
• ISBN 13: 9780224022835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of short stories that date from Phynchon's early career.

Review

"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)