Oblivion - Stories (Paperback)

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).

General

Imprint:	Back Bay Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	August 2005
Authors:	David Foster Wallace
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-316-01076-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-316-01076-6
Barcode:	9780316010764

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