New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Little Brown, New York. 2004 Signed by author. Small remainder mark on bottom text block near heel. Else a near mint First Edition First Printing and otherwise no flaws. Dust jacket is unmarked and price is unclipped. DJ has tiny crumple a top of spine on the right side. It is not a book club but IS a remainder. No corner pushes or shelf wear. It has a new clear cover for the dust jacket. The book's spine is stiff and it has only been partially opened to sign and verify number line down to 1. No odor and no smoking environment. .

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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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Bookseller: Winding Road Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000015
Title: Oblivion: Stories
Author: David Foster Wallace
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0316919810
ISBN 13: 9780316919814
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2004
Keywords: Fiction Literature

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