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'Anything from the most monstrous talent in the post-war Westr should be pursued in earnest.i've eaten two copies alrdady' Time OutThomas Pynchon in person,though,is famously unsubstantial.The"About the author"endpapers of his books are conspicuously blank.In Slow Learner he breaks cover for the first time with a remarkable openhanded portained poeasure of watching a clever and talented young man struggling to fin a style of his own.From such a retivcent man it is a wiirdly generous book'Sunday Times
'Pynchon at his best-and V and Gravity's Rainbow bear unmistakable marks of genius-could be defined without much exaggeration as a supreme teller of tales from the dark underground of the imagination,where"truth or falsity don't apply"Guardian
'Possibly the most accomplished writer of prose in English since James Joyce Sentence by sentence he can do more than any novelist of this century with the resources of the English-American language'London Review of Books.
'Pynchon at his best-and V and Gravity's Rainbow bear unmistakable marks of genius-could be defined without much exaggeration as a supreme teller of tales from the dark underground of the imagination,where"truth or falsity don't apply"Guardian
'Possibly the most accomplished writer of prose in English since James Joyce Sentence by sentence he can do more than any novelist of this century with the resources of the English-American language'London Review of Books.