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product_id: 4204791
title: "Slow Learner: Early Stories Paperback – April 30, 1985"
brand: "thomas pynchon"
price: "Bs.318"
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# Slow Learner: Early Stories Paperback – April 30, 1985

**Brand:** thomas pynchon
**Price:** Bs.318
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Slow Learner: Early Stories Paperback – April 30, 1985 by thomas pynchon
- **How much does it cost?** Bs.318 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love this!
*by S***H on May 1, 2014*

This book looks almost new and it is played well. I am so satisfied and happy to buy this quality of book for cheaper price!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by P***G on September 10, 2014*

Love this book, that's why I ordered a copy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Introduction is worth the price
*by B***N on June 27, 2012*

The first paragraph of the introduction is almost worth the price of the collection. For the person who has not read Thomas Pynchon, it is a first class review of what his work is like. The humor and seriousness are there, tempered with a bit of Sci-Fi whimsy. But the way that he takes the stories apart and shows what is missing, is a lesson for any budding writer. This book should be taught in many writing classes. I particularily love when he disses himself for creating a rule of writing and makes himself follow it. (The list of writers who do this very thing, is a long, long list!) I also love his comment that he was showing off his "Ear" (For dialogue) before he had actually attained one.It is nice that he left these stories in the condition that he found them, but I can't help but wonder what might have happened if he had revised or revisited them now as a master of his craft. (And then printed both versions.)Thomas Pynchon (and others) have downed these stories. But, what is poor, beginning writing for someone like Pynchon, is a level that many aspiring writers NEVER achieve. The story Entropy has been reprinted several times, so even though Pynchon finds it weak, it has great value. (At least to some editors.) The first time that I read it, I was not aware that this story was repudiated by its own author.While Pynchon really requires several hundred pages to reach the stride of his genius, I would certainaly state that these stories and introduction are an excellent place to start to read Thomas Pynchon. While he is often thought of as a writer who mines the pathway, and puts up boundries for his readers, this is far from true. Granted he is a difficult writer, and you need to know a LOT of stuff to completely "Get" what his is up to, he can be read for sheer pleasure. Get what you can and try to get more on each re-reading.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Slow Learner
- Bleeding Edge: A Novel
- Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

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