This introduction had me worried for a while. student at Cornell, the fifth in 1964, a yearĪfter the publication of his first novel, '' V.'' Text: Michael Wood, author of ''Stendhal'' and ''America in the Movies,'' is a professor of English at the University of Exeter. ''I was operating on the motto 'Make it literary,' a piece of badĪdvice I made up all by myself and then took.'' ''Do not,'' he adds later, ''underestimate the shallowness of my understanding.'' Four of these stories were written while Mr. ''There are some mighty tiresome passages here,'' he warns. Seems to find little virtue in what he calls his apprentice work. Pynchon is hard on his old faults, and at first Than he has ever done, since the volume not only collects five early works but offers an easygoing, seemingly vulnerable 20-page introduction by the vanishing author himself. Salinger, is a writer who has been hiding away for years, and in ''Slow Learner'' he cautiously paints himself back into the public view. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review DeskĮarly Stories. The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleĪpril 15, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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