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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays Compact disc - 2005

by David Foster Wallace; Read by David Foster Wallace

This hilarious and brilliant new collection of essays is from the award-winning author of the bestseller "Infinite Jest." Abridged. 3 CDs.


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  • Title Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
  • Author David Foster Wallace; Read by David Foster Wallace
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Abridged
  • Pages 1
  • Volumes 3
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company
  • Date 2005-12
  • Abridged Yes
  • Features Abridged
  • ISBN 9781594830990 / 1594830991
  • Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.86 x 5.92 x 0.6 in (14.88 x 15.04 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Audiobooks, American wit and humor
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.54

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2005, Page 1072
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 10/15/2005, Page 94
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/06/2006, Page 66

About the author

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996.

Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.

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UNITED STATES: Little, Brown & Company, 2005. Audio Book. Good. AUDIO CD. 3 AUDIO CDS! AUDIO CD performance. Each CD POLISHED prior to shipping for quality sound. You will receive a reliable set. Enjoy this AUDIO CD edition for your home and library..
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