"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." - New York Times
Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas PynchonтАЩs writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are тАЬThe Small Rain,тАЭ тАЬLow-lands,тАЭ тАЬEntropy,тАЭ тАЬUnder the Rose,тАЭ and тАЬThe Secret Integration,тАЭ along with an introduction by Pynchon himself that Time magazine calls his "first public gesture toward autobiography."
Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, GravityтАЩs Rainbow, Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, and Bleeding Edge. He received the National Book Award for GravityтАЩs Rainbow in 1974.