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Oblivion: Stories. David Foster Wallace Paperback - 2005
by David Foster Wallace
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- Title Oblivion: Stories. David Foster Wallace
- Author David Foster Wallace
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Condition New
- Pages 329
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Abacus Software, Great Britain
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # 570UNJ00015H_ns
- ISBN 9780349116495 / 0349116490
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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 inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. Oblivion is an arresting and hilarious creation from a writer "whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
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