Little, Brown and Company, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in like jacket. Green and blue paper boards with silver gilt titling on spine. Very minor rubbing to jacket, otherwise a tight, clean copy. Ownership signature of author john Metcalf on FFEP.

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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: Biblioasis (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 012766
Title: Oblivion: Stories
Author: Wallace, David Foster
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0316919810
ISBN 13: 9780316919814
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
Date Published: 2004
Pages: 336
X weight: 0 kg

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