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Book Description
Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions 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 retelling the daydream that Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Set to stun
Oblivion: Stories David Foster Wallace Abacus £12, pp330 David Foster Wallace's latest collection foregrounds the most marginal parts of the mind. In the surreal landscapes of these eight stories, the quotidian is lit by the glare of nightmare, and c ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 336 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0316010766
- ISBN-13: 9780316010764
- Publisher: Back Bay Books
- Pub date: Aug 30, 2005
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace 329pp, Abacus, £12 David Foster Wallace is one of those authors about whom there is a mist of reputed genius. Admirers fête the footnote-happy postmodernist for anatomising contemporary culture in heroically ... (read full critics)