This is Water

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• THIS IS WATER by David Foster Wallace

  Review by Doug Bruns (OCT 4, 2009) Disclaimer, I start this review with unabashed over-the-top hyperbole. David Foster Wallace is not God, but close, maybe. That would be the only way to explain the current DFW hysteria: the web sites, a new movie, t ... (read full critics)

  mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

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  A number of Wallace fans view this little book, the text of a graduation address that is easily available on the Internet, as exploitation. I'm not among them. The layout of the pages, which sometimes contain only a single sentence, forces you to read and ponder more slowly, reinforcing the thrust o ... (continue)

  A number of Wallace fans view this little book, the text of a graduation address that is easily available on the Internet, as exploitation. I'm not among them. The layout of the pages, which sometimes contain only a single sentence, forces you to read and ponder more slowly, reinforcing the thrust of Wallace's argument about the unexamined life. If you like books as objects, it's a nice little production.

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• English Books
• Others 144 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0316068225
• ISBN-13: 9780316068222
• Pub date: Apr 14, 2009
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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