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Published by Back Bay Books, 1997
ISBN 10: 0316921173ISBN 13: 9780316921176
Seller: Seattle Goodwill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Published by Back Bay Books, 2016
ISBN 10: 0316306053ISBN 13: 9780316306058
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Published by Back Bay Books, 2006
ISBN 10: 0316066524ISBN 13: 9780316066525
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Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
ISBN 10: 1441157077ISBN 13: 9781441157072
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Little Brown & Company, 1996
ISBN 10: 0316920045ISBN 13: 9780316920049
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Published by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1998
ISBN 10: 0316925284ISBN 13: 9780316925280
Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Reprint. A collection of essays by the late author of "Infinite Jest" and "The Broom of the System." A clean, unmarked copy.
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paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have condition issues including wear and notes/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Abacus, 1997
ISBN 10: 0349121087ISBN 13: 9780349121086
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2003
ISBN 10: 082641477XISBN 13: 9780826414779
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from The Remains of the Day' to White Teeth' A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.
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Published by Back Bay Books 2012:April, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 0316074225ISBN 13: 9780316074223
Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback edition. First printing. The last, and unfinished novel, by the late author of "Infinite Jest" and "The Broom of the System." Includes four new chapters not included in the first edition as well as "Notes and Asides," "About the Author." and "Reading Group Guide." A clean, unmarked copy.
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 034911952XISBN 13: 9780349119526
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Now in B Format.A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JESTDo lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talkshow featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that only looks good on the radio. In what is sure to be a much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life's most delicious topics. A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JEST Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by SSMG Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0976146533ISBN 13: 9780976146537
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Abacus Books, 1997
ISBN 10: 0349108773ISBN 13: 9780349108773
Seller: Friends of Pima County Public Library, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Paperback. NOT Ex-library. Good condition. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
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Published by München : Goldmann Verlag, 2006
ISBN 10: 3442542294ISBN 13: 9783442542291
Seller: BOUQUINIST, München, BY, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Condition: Wie neu. Taschenbucherstausgabe. 183 (9) Seiten. 18,3 cm. Umschlaggestaltung: Design Team. Lesetipp des Bouquinisten! Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Die meisten Leute würden sich sehr wahrscheinlich ein Loch in den Bauch freuen, wenn man sie zu einer Kreuzfahrt auf einem Luxusdampfer -- Typ Queen Elisabeth II -- einladen würde, mit allem Pipapo und allen Schikanen und nur einer einzigen Bedingung: "Lass Dich feudal durch die Karibik schippern und schreib einfach auf, was Du gesehen hast!" Ein Traum -- dachte sich wahrscheinlich auch David Foster Wallace, als er von einer "Edelgazette von der Ostküste" (Harper's Magazine) genau dies angeboten bekam. Über die einwöchige Fahrt auf dem 47.255-Tonnen Schiff der Celebrity Cruises Inc. -- "so sauber und so weiß wie nach einer Kochwäsche" -- hat Wallace dann eine einzigartige "Doku-Postkarte im Breitwandformat" verfasst, deren gut gemeinte Einschätzung durch den Verlag als ein "Juwel moderner Reiseliteratur" eher von einer gewissen Ratlosigkeit zeugt als von einer realistischen Einschätzung des Berichtes. Denn die Kreuzfahrt-Reportage des hochgelobten amerikanischen Autoren schert sich herzlich wenig um die Konventionen herkömmlicher Reiseliteratur und widmet sich stattdessen einer ebenso detaillierten wie angenehm verstörenden Beschreibung des unvergleichlichen Soziotops an Bord eines Luxusliners, wo man für 3.000 Dollar die "feinen cocktailogischen Unterschiede zwischen einem Slippery Nipple und einem Fuzzy Navel" vermittelt bekommt und "1500 Mal Zielobjekt des berühmten amerikanischen Service-Lächelns" wird. Natürlich wäre nichts einfacher, als sich über amerikanische Wohlstandsrentner zynisch auszulassen, die sich im Ententanz der Verwöhnmaschine eines Karibik-Cruisers hingeben und gleichzeitig "mit unterernährten Kindern um den Preis von Halskettchen" feilschen. Doch Wallace' Perspektive auf die Marotten der Reichen und Superreichen ist zugleich komplexer und ehrlicher. Obsessiv bis in die Details (und mit 136 Fußnoten!) beschreibt Wallace die surreale Atmosphäre eines Kreuzschiffes und seine eigenen Reaktionen darauf; eine dokumentarische Tour de Force, die sämtliche Fassetten von tragisch bis komisch durchläuft und dabei nie oberflächlich oder langweilig wird. Nach dem Kleinen Mädchen mit komischen Haaren und den Kurzen Interviews mit fiesen Männern haben deutsche Leser hier die Gelegenheit, eine weitere beeindruckende Seite dieses vielseitigen Autoren kennen zu lernen, der neben Jonathan Franzen und Michael Chabon inzwischen zu den führenden amerikanischen Schriftstellern der jüngeren Generation gezählt wird. Und natürlich warten wir schon ungeduldig auf die Übersetzung von Wallace' Magnum Opus Infinite Jest -- am besten durch Marcus Ingendaay, der auch diese Kreuzfahrt meisterhaft bewältigt hat! --Peter Schneck.- Gerade einmal 46 Jahre alt, nahm sich David Foster Wallace im September 2008 das Leben. Sein Werk gehört zum Vielseitigsten und Interessantesten der US-amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Er verfasste hochkomplexe Romane wie "Infinite Jest" ebenso wie Satiren, Reportagen oder Sachbücher. Für die New York Times erschloss er in einem legendären Essay "Roger Federer as Religious Experience", und in "Schrecklich amüsant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich" erweist er sich als feiner Beobachter des Geschehens auf einem Luxus-Kreuzfahrtdampfer. Erste Geschichten und einen Roman schrieb er während seines Studiums von Literatur und Philosophie. Seit 2002 lehrte am Pomona College im kalifornischen Claremont Englisch und "Creative Wiriting". Geboren wurde David Foster Wallace 1962 in Ithaca im Staate New York. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 185.
Published by BrightSummaries.com, 2019
ISBN 10: 2808018940ISBN 13: 9782808018944
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0141046759ISBN 13: 9780141046754
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Both Flesh and Not combines David Foster Wallace's best-loved essays with work never before published in the UK.Beloved for his brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagination, David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation. Collected in Both Flesh and Not are fifteen essays published for the first time in book form, including writing never published before in the UK.From 'Federer Both Flesh and Not', considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece; to 'The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2,' which deftly dissects James Cameron's blockbuster; to 'Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young', an examination of television's effect on a new generation of writers, David Foster Wallace's writing swoops from erudite literary discussion to open-hearted engagement with the most familiar of our twentieth-century cultural references.A celebration of Wallace's great loves - for language, for precision, for meaning - and a feast of enjoyment for his fans, Both Flesh and Not is a fitting tribute to this writer who was never concerned with anything less important than what it means to be alive.Praise for Both Flesh and Not: 'Whether dwelling on the real-world implications of metaphysics [or the] pop constructions of pure maths . . . Both Flesh and Not brims with jewels of insight and expression' Independent'At their best these essays remind us of Wallace's arsenal of talents: his restless, heat-seeking reportorial eye; his ability to convey the physical or emotional truth of things with a couple of flicks of the wrist; his capacity to make leaps, from the mundane to the metaphysical, with breathtaking velocity and ardor' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times'Excellent in its entirety and just as quietly, unflinchingly soul-stirring' The Atlantic'There are times, reading his work, when you get halfway through a sentence and gasp involuntarily, and for a second you feel lucky that there was, at least for a time, someone who could make sense like no other of what it is to be a human in our era of "Total Noise"' Telegraph'One of the best writers of our time . . . If you've never read David Foster Wallace before, his masterful study of Roger Federer, included in this anthology, is an ideal place to start' US Marie Claire'A fine collection . . . you could more or less open it at random and find something to demonstrate the man's prodigious' Guardian 'The best passages are those that celebrate words and the author's relationship with them . . . It is a treasure trove for those who love the complexities of language' US TimeoutDavid Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System. His final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011. He is also the author of the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair, and his non-fiction includes several essay collections and the full-length work Everything and More. Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen essays. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 0349110018ISBN 13: 9780349110011
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING. brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tennis player to his trip on a commercial cruiseliner. In each of these essays, Wallace's observations are as keen as they are funny. Filled with hilarious details and invigorating analyses, these essays brilliantly expose the fault line in American culture - and once again reveal David Foster Wallace's extraordinary talent and gargantuan intellect. *Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Back Bay Books, New York, 2006
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine to Fine. No Jacket. 3rd Printing. Nice copy that appears unread. Trade paper, 1079 pages. Heavy. Bright, fresh and clean copy of his masterpiece. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0241968313ISBN 13: 9780241968314
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop.Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic from David Foster Wallace and his friend and room-mate Mark Costello, first published in 1990, long out of print, and previously unavailable outside the USA.A paean to the golden age of Hip-Hop and the first book to consider seriously its position as a vital force in American culture, Signifying Rappers is a must-read for fans of both Wallace and hip-hop. Set against the legendary 1980s scene, it maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy and exuberance which is as fresh today as when it was written.'Costello and Wallace's pioneering study is a dazzling performance: informative, provocative, funny, brilliantly written . . . great wit, insight and in-your-face energy' Review of Contemporary Fiction'Both a cogent explication of rap and a cutting, revealing parody of overinflated, pseudointellectual rap criticism' Seattle WeeklyDavid Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System. His final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011. He is also the author of the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair. His non-fiction includes several essay collections, including Both Flesh and Not, which was published in 2012, and the the full-length work Everything and More.Mark Costello is the author of two novels, including the National Book Award Finalist Big If. He lives in New York City. Set against the legendary 1980s scene, this book maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy and exuberance which is as fresh today as when it was written. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141046732ISBN 13: 9780141046730
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's towering, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel. 'Breathtakingly brilliant, funny, maddening and elegiac' New York Times 'A bravura performance worthy of Woolf or Joyce. Wallace's finest work as a novelist' Time 'Light-years beyond Infinite Jest. Wallace's reputation will only grow, and like one of the broken columns beloved of Romantic painters, The Pale King will stand, complete in its incompleteness, as his most substantial fictional achievement' Hari Kunzru, Financial Times 'A paradise of language and intelligence' The Times 'Archly brilliant' Metro 'Teems with erudition and ideas, with passages of stylistic audacity, with great cheerful thrown-out gags, goofy puns and moments of truly arresting clarity. Innovative, penetrating, forcefully intelligent fiction like Wallace's arrives once in a generation, if that' Daily Telegraph 'In a different dimension to the tepid vapidities that pass as novels these days. Sentence for sentence, almost word for word, Wallace could out-write any of his peers' Scotland on Sunday David Foster Wallace wrote the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, and the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair. His non-fiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More, This is Water and Both Flesh and Not. He died in 2008. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Lit Fest Press / Festival of Language, 2016
ISBN 10: 1943170134ISBN 13: 9781943170135
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
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Published by Little, Brown & Company, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0316013323ISBN 13: 9780316013321
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining.Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters. "Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times This brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays is offered by the award-winning author of the bestselling "Infinite Jest." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0062027492ISBN 13: 9780062027498
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper.David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the MadmanThe Story of Aint by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the creation of Merriam Websters Third New International Dictionary in 1961, the most controversial dictionary ever published. Skinners surprising and engaging, erudite and witty account will enthrall fans of Winchesters The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything, and The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, as it explores a culture in transition and the brilliant, colorful individuals behind it. The Story of Aint is a smart, often outrageous, and altogether remarkable tale of how egos, infighting, and controversy shaped one of Americas most authoritative language texts, sparking a furious language debate that the late, great author David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) once called the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars. Entertaining and erudite, and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, this title describes a societal metamorphosis, tracing the fallout of the world wars, the rise of an educated middle class, and the emergence of America as the undisputed leader of the free world, and illuminating how those forces shaped our language. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Spaceboy Books LLC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1951393082ISBN 13: 9781951393083
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A screenplay that predicts the future. A terrorist cult destined to destroy something they can't remember. A projectionist trying to find her way through a story she's suddenly aware she's living. A loser who always seems to be in the wrong place at the right time. And the disparate particles and people populating a slowly-collapsing, not-so-far-from-now world where movie theaters no longer exist, one percent of the population is dead, and everything we do is surveilled and advertised. This is Sunflower -- the final film by Simeon Wolpe.Readers of Sunflower, Tex Gresham's brilliant new novel, will probably find themselves thinking of Gravity's Rainbow, House of Leaves, and Infinite Jest. But in truth, Sunflower is something else, a beast with its own distinct brand of madness. Bluntly satirical of Trump-era politics, Sunflower takes you on an acid trip disguised as a conspiracy theory, working with equal skill in realist, absurdist, and metafictional modes to make sure you're lost in a funhouse you won't want to leave. In Gresham's fictional universe, the world might end while you're watching a movie about the end of the world, and maybe you wrote the script or maybe your double wrote the script, and even if the theater is filled with people who won't hesitate to blow your brains out if you laugh at all the wrong moments, it won't make any difference, since the book is filled with all the right moments.--Stephen-Paul Martin, author of The Ace of Lightning If a bodybuilder were to astral project herself into both Werner Herzog's cameraman/cinematography and Middlemarch, it would produce a morbidly rakish sunflower of the same heliotropic anti- equivalent as Tex Gresham's Sunflower. And, if an intern were to work in Gresham's library of chapters and deleted scenes, it would confuse The Library of Congress for Netflix.-Vi Khi Nao, author of Fish In Exile and The Vegas Dilemma Tex Gresham has blurred the line between satirical deconstruction of postmodern novels and sentimental love letters to cinema. Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, Sunflower is an intricate mystery that will leave readers seeking to mend their broken relationships and their humanity through a shared fondness for the silver screen. Sunflower is this summer's biggest literary blockbuster hit! You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll dissolve.--Dan Eastman, author of Watertown Sunflower is virtuosic, gargantuan, totally unafraid. Experimental and wild, beautiful and heartbreaking, serious and hilarious--I think Tex is here to stay.--Lindsay Lerman, author of I'm From Nowhere and What Are You If Paul Thomas Anderson wrote a novel based on a film by David Foster Wallace with a screenplay by Thomas Pynchon about dark Hollywood, mind-bending conspiracy, the slapstick horror of America and sheer insanity of existence, these would be some in a long line of flavors the sum total of which might come partway to encapsulating Sunflower. Hilarious, repulsive, enthralling, shocking, breathtaking, masterful-Tex Gresham's magnum opus is a novel you will use all your adjectives attempting to describe; a dense, multi-character tale in which each place and person, every moment and word, are connected through myriad layers across space and time. The effect is staggering. This book will swallow you whole then spit you back out, dazed, bewildered, transformed-hungering for more.--Philip Elliot, author of Nobody Move and Porno Valley I've tried to make Sunflower into a feature--not a Netflix series--and people called me a moron. So the least I can do is say, "Read this book and imagine it as a really good movie that I would make." Because it's so good that I wanted to make Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Little, Brown & Company, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 0316182400ISBN 13: 9780316182409
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here -- with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work -- essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person." Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students. A dozen writers and critics, including Hari Kunzru, Anne Fadiman, and Nam Le, add afterwords to favorite pieces, expanding our appreciation of the unique pleasures of Wallace's writing. The result is an astonishing volume that shows the breadth and range of "one of America's most daring and talented writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) whose work was full of humor, insight, and beauty. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Penguin Classics, 2016
ISBN 10: 0143129449ISBN 13: 9780143129448
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2018
ISBN 10: 0241961963ISBN 13: 9780241961964
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive. [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first among us. The most talented, most daring, most energetic and original, the funniest. This man got inside the world's mind and changed it for the better' George Saunders'Radical, impassioned, heart-and brain-stretching. His talent was so obviously great it confused people' Zadie SmithDiscover one of the most celebrated writers of our age - the visionary author of Infinite Jest andA Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do AgainFrom genre-defining reportage to genre-breaking fiction, David Foster Wallace captured the human experience as no-one else has - in all its multiplicity, sorrow and tenderness, wit and irony and deep, dazzling truth.Penguin presents the very best of his collected fiction and nonfiction, including extracts from his most famous novels, short stories and iconic essays such as 'Consider the Lobster'. Alongside these classic pieces is exclusive, previously unpublished work, and critical contributions from twelve prominent authors and thinkers, all commissioned specifically for this collection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by New York: Penguin, 2015., 2015
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First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's second novel, a wide-ranging and complex story in which the divergent threads gradually come together. Beginning with Radar's mysterious birth, this expands outward and through history. "Deep in arctic Norway, a cadre of Norwegian schoolteachers is imprisoned during the Second World War. Founding a radical secret society that will hover on the margins of recorded history for decades to come, these schoolteachers steal radioactive material from a hidden Nazi nuclear reactor and use it to stage a surreal art performance on a frozen coastline. This strange society appears again in the aftermath of Cambodias murderous Khmer Rouge regime, when another secret performance takes place but goes horrifically wrong. Echoes of this disaster can be heard during the Yugoslavian wars. . . Decades later, in the war-torn Congo, a disfigured literature professor assembles the largest library in the world even as the country around him collapses. All of these stories are linked by Radar - now a gifted radio operator living in the New Jersey Meadowlands - who struggles with love, a set of hapless parents, and a terrible medical affliction that he has only just begun to comprehend." The Washington Post called this "grandly ambitious. another masterpiece" and compared it to Pynchons V. and David Foster Wallaces Infinite Jest. 653 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
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ISBN 10: 8499083560ISBN 13: 9788499083568
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Condition: Nuevo. Escritos durante la década de 1990, los ensayos y artículos de Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volveré a hacer constituyen una de las radiografías más irreverentes e hilarantes de la cultura americana de fin de milenio. Las subculturas televisivas, las entretelas del deporte de elite, la vida salvaje y surreal en el Medio Oeste o el turismo de lujo en el Caribe son algunos de los fenómenos que David Foster Wallace describe desde una perspectiva donde se entremezclan la familiaridad, el asombro y una mordacidad descabellada. En estos textos, publicados originalmente en revistas como Harper's o Variety , el autor consigue dar una vuelta de tuerca inédita en la literatura norteamericana: aunar una capacidad analítica deslumbrante con una visión satírica corrosiva y la imaginación narrativa alucinante que conocemos de su ficción. Como una Guía de Fin de Milenio escrita a cuatro manos por Nathanael West y Don DeLillo.Una de las radiografías más irreverentes e hilarantes de la cultura americana de fin de milenio.David Foster Wallace nació en Ithaca, Nueva York, en 1962. En 1985 publicó su primera novela, The Broom of the System, a la que siguieron la colección de relatos cortos La niña del pelo raro (Literatura Mondadori, 2000), la monumental y aclamada novela Infinite Jest (1996), y otra colección de relatos con el título Entrevistas breves con hombres repulsivos (Literatura Mondadori, 2001). Compagina su carrera de escritor con las clases de escritura creativa en la Universidad Estatal de Illinois.