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EAN-13 | 9780349119526 |
Product Name | Oblivion: Stories |
Language | English |
Category | Book / Magazine / Publication |
Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon ~ 0316010766 |
SKU | 9780316010764 |
Price New | 8.30 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Price Used | 4.99 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Width | 0.87 inches (convert) |
Height | 8.25 inches (convert) |
Length | 5.5 inches (convert) |
Weight | 10.4 ounces (convert) |
Author | David Foster Wallace |
Page Count | 336 |
Binding | Paperback |
Published | 08/30/2005 |
Features | Back Bay Books |
Long Description | 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. |
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