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Title: Oblivion

Author: David Foster Wallace

ISBN: 9780316010764

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2005

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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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 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.
” is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place.” —San Francisco Chronicle