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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Category: Non-Fiction
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to ...Show more
Both Flesh and Not by Wallace David Foster
Category: Fiction
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by WALLACE DAVID FOSTER
Category: Fiction
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most ...Show more
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Category: Non-Fiction
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the th ...Show more
Everything and More : A Compact History of Infinity by Neal (INT) David Foster; Stephenson Wallace
Category: Non-Fiction
Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cant ...Show more
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Category: Fiction
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Category: Fiction
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranc ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Category: Fiction
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Category: Fiction
'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times 'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Woods, Guardian 'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleepi ...Show more
Oblivion by WALLACE DAVID FOSTER
Category: Fiction
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 despera ...Show more
Oblivion Stories by David Foster Wallace
Category: Fiction
'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised ...Show more