Oblivion : Stories
by DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
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- Paperback
- Condition
- 4.1 PB extra nice +5%
- ISBN 10
- 0316010766
- ISBN 13
- 9780316010764
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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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- The Book Nook (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1044217
- Title
- Oblivion : Stories
- Author
- DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market
- Book Condition
- Used - 4.1 PB extra nice +5%
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0316010766
- ISBN 13
- 9780316010764
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- August 2005
- Pages
- 329
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