Slow Learner: Early Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316724425 (0316724424)
Publish date: April 1st 1984
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Pages no: 193
Edition language: English
Borderline juvenilia. Introduction by author dismisses the collection ab initio as “illustrative of typical problems in entry-level fiction” (4). Explains that “when we speak of ‘seriousness’ in fiction ultimately we are talking about an attitude toward death” (5) which I regard as probably philis...
Strong, good fun 3* I agree the foreword should be afterword, otherwise nice to track the rise of Pynchon :D
This arrived today packaged in a black plastic garbage bag wrapped in rubber bands and then wrapped in clear plastic packing tape. I see no signs of a postmark. Could the seller have dropped it in a W.A.S.T.E. bin?This cover art really reminds me of the closing credits to The Prisoner.