V. 101

[Mark Kohut]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.

Winner of the Wm Faulkner Foundation Award for Debut novel. 
Nominated, yes, for a National Book Award. His slow learning is long over. 

My edition containing the earlier 1981 copyright---for the chapter "Under the Rose", published April 30 '81 in" The Noble Savage",
the literary magazine published by Saul Bellow and others:
The Noble Savage 3. , Saul & Keith Botsford (eds.) [Thomas Pynchon ... 
The Noble Savage 3. Bellow, Saul & Keith Botsford (eds. ... Contains the Pynchon short story 'Under the Rose' that would later be collected in 'Slow ...
 
P.S. misc. literary history: I believe Keith Botsford (or some other guy who worked with Saul for the magazine) is the real-life guy Saul's real life wife left him for which led Bellow to immortalize him as Valentine Gerspach [very Pynchonian name] in Herzog.


For later discussion. Pynchon made clear at least once the novel was V period.---V.----not V         
why, why?