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Oblivion - SIGNED
by Wallace, David Foster
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316919810
- ISBN 13
- 9780316919814
- Seller
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Palm Desert, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 2004. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine and appears to be unread in a fine unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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
- James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9007
- Title
- Oblivion - SIGNED
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316919810
- ISBN 13
- 9780316919814
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 329
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA
Biblio member since 2017
Palm Desert, California
About James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA
Specializing in Modern First Editions, including many signed copies
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