Back Bay Books, 8/30/2005 12:00:01 A. paperback. Acceptable. 1.0200 in x 8.1900 in x 5.5100 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

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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Seller: Once Upon a Time Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: mon0001082335
Title: Oblivion: Stories
Author: Wallace, David Foster
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0316010766
ISBN 13: 9780316010764
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 8/30/2005 12:00:01 A
Size: 1.0200 in x 8.1900 in x 5.5100 i
Bookseller catalogs: Book;
X weight: 0.5997 lb

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