Thomas Pynchon nació en Nueva York en 1937, y de él sólo se sabe que estudió ingeniería y literatura en la Universidad de Cornell, que redactó folletos técnicos para la compañía Boeing, que envió a un cómico a recoger en su nombre el National Book Award, y que vive en Nueva York. Tusquets Editores ha publicado toda su obra de ficción, compuesta por las novelas Vineland, Un lento aprendizaje, La subasta del lote 49, V., Mason y Dixon, El arco iris de gravedad, Contraluz, Vicio propio y Al límite.
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A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times -- sexual and political -- which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which ...
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Pynchon's "V". won the coveted William Faulkner Foundation's First Novel Award when it appeared in 1963, and was hailed by "Atlantic Review" as "one of the best works of the century". The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-09-953251-4
EAN 9780099532514
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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 183 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-06-091307-6
EAN 9780060913076
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
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Thomas Pynchon's literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, "V., " but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to "Slow Learner" the author reviews his early work with disarming candor and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early ...
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