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OBLIVION: STORIES - ADVANCE COPY, SIGNED
by Wallace, David Foster
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); original glossy printed card wrappers; [vi],[3],4-328,[2]pp. Signed by Wallace above his crossed-out name on the title page. Some trivial dustiness to lower edge of textblock, else Fine. Advance copy of Wallace's third collection of short fiction, collecting 8 stories, versions of which previously appeared in the pages of AGNI, Black Clock, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Esquire, and McSweeney's.
Synopsis
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. Oblivion is an arresting and hilarious creation from a writer "whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
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- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7261
- Title
- OBLIVION: STORIES - ADVANCE COPY, SIGNED
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 2004
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