...eye-opener," as he later described it. <ref>In his introduction to ''Slow Learner: Early Stories'' (Little, Brown, 1984), p. 8.</ref> He returned to Cornell
...57), a book Pynchon called "one of the great American novels." <ref>''Slow Learner'', p. 7.</ref> They think they're getting somewhere, they think they're loo
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...e loose, improvisatory language of beat writing. It is by turns hilarious, slow, and utterly mesmerizing.
...e. Other than the introduction to his volume of apprentice stories, ''Slow Learner'' (1984), Pynchon published nothing new during the eighties. However, his n
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