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Oblivion: Stories
by Wallace, David Foster
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316919810
- ISBN 13
- 9780316919814
- Seller
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Eugene , Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Little, Brown and Company. Used - Good. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.
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
- St. Vinnie's Charitable Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M-02-4180
- Title
- Oblivion: Stories
- Author
- Wallace, David Foster
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316919810
- ISBN 13
- 9780316919814
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2004
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