Oblivion Stories

Author: David Foster Wallace

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Price : $24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780349116495
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Abacus
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Weight (g) : 0.21
Publication date : 01 April 2005
Dimensions : 198mm X 126mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : David Foster Wallace
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Pages : 336
BIC subject : Modern fiction
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'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been hailed as 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS). Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no exception. In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. 'Wallace's talent is such that you can't help wondering: how good can he get?' TIME OUT

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* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS)

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David Foster Wallace is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Kahn Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. He lives in downstate Illinois.

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