Oblivion: Stories
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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 inco
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Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Release date: 8 June 2004
ISBN-10 : 0316919810 | ISBN-13: 9780316919814
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Release date: 8 June 2004
ISBN-10 : 0316919810 | ISBN-13: 9780316919814