Slow Learner: Early Stories
9 best books like Slow Learner: Early Stories (Thomas Pynchon): Libra, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Lost in the Funhouse, White Noise, The Angel Esmeralda, Running Dog, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., Girl with Curious Hair
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0140156046 |
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0141439777 |
No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...
| Author | John Barth |
| ISBN | 0385240872 |
Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth’s collection of fourteen metafictional short-stories could take the cupcake for the most extreme form of self-reflexive postmodern literature ever written. Frame-Tale is ten words long on a Mobius strip, Night-Sea Journey a ten-pager, an occasionally...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0143129554 |
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 1451655843 |
From one of the greatest writers of our time, a collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American culture.
From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0679722947 |
DeLillo's "Running Dog," originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film...
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0452260302 |
Underrated gem - it's a difficult book, especially in the second half, but it has both beauty and daring going for it. The story of a man who gets more and more into his simulated baseball game. Less about baseball than about theology, and most of all it seems to me to be a parable about writing. It has some...
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily...
