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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.
"Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place." —San Francisco Chronicle
Kindle Book
- ISBN: 9780316135405
- Release date: June 8, 2004
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780759511569
- Release date: June 8, 2004
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780759511569
- File size: 366 KB
- Release date: June 8, 2004
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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.
"Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place." —San Francisco Chronicle
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Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Kindle Book
ISBN: 9780316135405
Release date: June 8, 2004
OverDrive Read
ISBN: 9780759511569
Release date: June 8, 2004
EPUB ebook
ISBN: 9780759511569
File size: 366 KB
Release date: June 8, 2004
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Creators
- David Foster Wallace - Author
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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
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English
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