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Oblivion : Stories by David Foster Wallace (2005, Perfect)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316010766

ISBN-139780316010764

eBay Product ID (ePID)127453278

Product Key Features

Book TitleOblivion : Stories

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Satire, Literary

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorDavid Foster Wallace

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews""David Foster Wallace has earned a place as one of America's most daring and talented young writers....His eye for cultural detail is ever sharp, his humor ever dry."

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Synopsis- Wallace is perhaps best known as the author of "Infinite Jest, the bestselling, novel (more than 150,000 copies sold to date) that established him as one of the most influential writers of out time.- Wallace is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and numerous other literary awards.- The stories in OBLIVION first saw print in AGNI, "Esquire, and "McSweeney's, among other publications., In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. "Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place." -- San Francisco Chronicle, In the stories that make up this exuberantly praised collection, Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his., In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.