New York, New York, U. S. A.: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With One Quarter Blue Over Green Paper With Silver Lettering On The Spine. The Unclipped Jacket Has Minor Edge Wear.

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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Bookseller: Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 039258
Title: Oblivion: Stories
Author: Wallace, David Foster
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0316919810
ISBN 13: 9780316919814
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U. S. A.
Date Published: 2004
Pages: 329
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Authors, American - 20Th Century; Short Stories - Fiction; Authors, American. Short Stories (single author)

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