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Oblivion: Stories
by Wallace, David Foster
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316010766
- ISBN 13
- 9780316010764
- Seller
-
Hyattsville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Back Bay Books, 2005-08-30. paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Unmarked trade paperback
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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- Bookseller
- Robert Harper Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 118896
- Title
- Oblivion: Stories
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0316010766
- ISBN 13
- 9780316010764
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005-08-30
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 10 oz
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Robert Harper Books LLC
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