‘Anything from the most monstrous talent in the post-war West should be pursued in earnest. I’ve eaten two copies already’Time Out‘Pynchon at his best’Guardian‘Thomas Pynchon is the Gargantua of modern fiction… 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 portrait of the writer as a young man’Sunday Times‘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
