The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System and three story collections. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. He died in 2008. This is a selection of David Foster Wallace's work.
One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction * Sunday Times *
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 * Daily Telegraph *
A prose magician, Mr Wallace was capable of writing. . about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humour and fervour and verve -- Michiko Kakutani * The New York Times *
A heady reminder of why we got hooked in the first place * Daily Telegraph *
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 * Daily Telegraph *
A prose magician, Mr Wallace was capable of writing. . about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humour and fervour and verve -- Michiko Kakutani * The New York Times *
A heady reminder of why we got hooked in the first place * Daily Telegraph *
David Foster Wallace wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and three story collections. His non-fiction includes Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. He died in 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241145463 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241145465 |
| Title | The David Foster Wallace Reader |
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 976 |
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