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Product NameOblivion: Stories
LanguageEnglish
CategoryBook / Magazine / Publication
Amazon.comA Buy on Amazon ~ 0316010766
SKU9780316010764
Price New8.30 US Dollars    (curriencies)
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Width0.87 inches    (convert)
Height8.25 inches    (convert)
Length5.5 inches    (convert)
Weight10.4 ounces    (convert)
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
Page Count336
BindingPaperback
Published08/30/2005
FeaturesBack Bay Books
Long DescriptionIn 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.
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