Titles in this Set:

1. Slow Learner
2. Inherent Vice
3. Bleeding Edge

Description:

Slow Learner
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us iswe are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

Thomas Pynchons literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, V., but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to Slow Learner, the author reviews his early work with disarming candour and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early post-Beat era in which the stories were written

Inherent Vice
It’s been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love wi