Slow Learner: Early Stories

Pynchon, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0316724424 / ISBN 13: 9780316724425

Edité par Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1984

Octavo. Tan cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on both the spine and the front board. Book has a very light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tip of the lower front outside corner. Pale green endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription on the free front endpaper. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 193 pages. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of the two front outside corners. There's a 2/3" closed tear in the upper edge of the rear cover near the tip of the outside corner. Jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. Upper corner of the front inside flap has been price clipped. Author's fourth book after Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, V., and followed by Vineland, The Bleeding Edge, and others. N° de réf. du vendeur 012827

Synopsis :

Book by Pynchon Thomas

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing.

The collection consists of five short stories: 'The Small Rain', 'Lowlands', 'Entropy', 'Under the Rose', and 'The Secret Integration', as well as an introduction written by Pynchon himself for the 1984 publication. The five stories were originally published individually in various literary magazines but in 1984, after Pynchon had achieved greater recognition, Slow Learner was published to collect and copyright the stories into one volume. The introduction also offers a rare insight into Pynchon's own views on his work and influences.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Slow Learner: Early Stories
Éditeur : Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date d'édition : 1984
Reliure : Hard Cover
Etat : VG+
Etat de la jaquette : VG+
Edition : First Edition, First Printing.