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String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis
An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best tennis-writer of all time" …
Infinite Jest
By the author of "The Broom of the System". This is the story of the addictive power of a movie - "Infinite Jest" - and how it affects a Boston halfway house for recovering drug …
This Is Water
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? …
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.Wallace's …
Der Spaß an der Sache
Everything and More
The award-winning author of Infinite Jest considers the paradoxical nature of infinity, considering whether or not it is mathematically plausible or just an abstract concept, and …
History of American Political Thought
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the …
Den bleke kongen
Da David Foster Wallace døde i 2008 etterlot han seg et uferdig manus til et romanprosjekt. - Den bleke kongen. Dette var noe han hadde arbeidet mer eller mindre sammenhengende med …
Consider the Lobster
A collection of essays shares whimsical observations about such topics as the Bush-Kerry presidential race, the pain experienced by lobsters while they are being prepared for the …
Girl with Curious Hair
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of …
Animal Welfare in a Changing World
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range …
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace
This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and …