Oblivion
by Wallace, David Foster
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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Boston: Little Brown & Company, 2004. First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Oblivion is David Foster Wallace's third and final short story collection. "It has breathtakingly smart" stories are "epic modernism," with… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Signed by Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. His last collection of stories. The writing of these stories overlapped his final novel, "The Pale King" (published posthumously in 2011), some being the manuscripts of the novel. Item Price
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OBLIVION: STORIES.
by Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008)
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New York & Boston:: Little Brown,, (2004). First edition -. Fine in glossy white wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A collection of eight short stories by this award-winning writer - "each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously… Read more about this item Item Price
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