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Slow Learner: Early Stories [Pynchon's Editor's Copy] by PYNCHON, Thomas - 1985

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Slow Learner: Early Stories [Pynchon's Editor's Copy] by PYNCHON, Thomas - 1985

Slow Learner: Early Stories [Pynchon's Editor's Copy]

by PYNCHON, Thomas

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(London): Picador / Pan, 1985. Softcover. Fine. First English paperback edition. Pages a little browned, else fine in wrappers. Pynchon's editor Ray Roberts's copies, with his book label on the inside cover. Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Thomas Pynchon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He began editing Pynchon when the latter went to Little, Brown, starting with his book *Slow Learner*.

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by MCNAMEE, Eoin

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