Both Flesh and Not combines David Foster Wallace's best-loved
essays with work never before published in the UK. Beloved for his
brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely
generous imagination, David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics
and fans as the voice of a generation. Collected in Both Flesh and
Not are fifteen essays published for the first time in book form,
including writing never published before in the UK. From 'Federer
Both Flesh and Not', considered by many to be his nonfiction
masterpiece; to 'The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator
2,' which deftly dissects James Cameron's blockbuster; to
'Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young', an examination of
television's effect on a new generation of writers, David Foster
Wallace's writing swoops from erudite literary discussion to
open-hearted engagement with the most familiar of our
twentieth-century cultural references. A celebration of Wallace's
great loves - for language, for precision, for meaning - and a
feast of enjoyment for his fans, Both Flesh and Not is a fitting
tribute to this writer who was never concerned with anything less
important than what it means to be alive. Praise for Both Flesh and
Not: 'Whether dwelling on the real-world implications of
metaphysics [or the] pop constructions of pure maths . . . Both
Flesh and Not brims with jewels of insight and expression'
Independent 'At their best these essays remind us of Wallace's
arsenal of talents: his restless, heat-seeking reportorial eye; his
ability to convey the physical or emotional truth of things with a
couple of flicks of the wrist; his capacity to make leaps, from the
mundane to the metaphysical, with breathtaking velocity and ardor'
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'Excellent in its entirety and
just as quietly, unflinchingly soul-stirring' The Atlantic '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 of "Total
Noise"' Telegraph 'One of the best writers of our time . . . If
you've never read David Foster Wallace before, his masterful study
of Roger Federer, included in this anthology, is an ideal place to
start' US Marie Claire 'A fine collection . . . you could more or
less open it at random and find something to demonstrate the man's
prodigious' Guardian 'The best passages are those that celebrate
words and the author's relationship with them . . . It is a
treasure trove for those who love the complexities of language' US
Timeout David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of
the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System. His
final novel, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011. He
is also the author of the short-story collections Oblivion, Brief
Interviews with Hideous Men and Girl with Curious Hair, and his
non-fiction includes several essay collections and the full-length
work Everything and More.
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