Oblivion : Stories
by David Foster Wallace
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 096591478X
- ISBN 13
- 9780965914789
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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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- Blue Vase Books LLC (US)
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- Title
- Oblivion : Stories
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- Book Condition
- UsedGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 096591478X
- ISBN 13
- 9780965914789
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York/boston
- This edition first published
- 2004
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