Skip to content

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Paperback - 2000

by Wallace, David Foster

  • Used
  • Paperback

These eclectic stories explore intensely immediate states of mind with the creative daring that has won Wallace the reputation of being one of the most talented fiction writers of his generation.

Drop Ship Order

Description

Back Bay Books, 2000-04-01. Reprint. paperback. Used:Good.
Used:Good
NZ$26.94
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 5 to 10 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Ergodebooks (Texas, United States)

Details

  • Title Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
  • Author Wallace, David Foster
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used:Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-04-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0316925195
  • ISBN 9780316925198 / 0316925195
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.54 x 0.9 in (20.88 x 14.07 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98050944
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About Ergodebooks Texas, United States

Biblio member since 2005
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Our goal is to provide best customer service and good condition books for the lowest possible price. We are always honest about condition of book. We list book only by ISBN # and hence exact book is guaranteed.

Terms of Sale:

We have 30 day return policy.

Browse books from Ergodebooks

First line

HASH(0x10abf700)

From the rear cover

David Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In this exuberantly acclaimed collection he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 09/26/2008, Page 38
  • New York Times, 04/02/2000, Page 32

About the author

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 201