- American literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), Man-woman relationships, Short Stories
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
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Contemporary, spare, prestige and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- First published
- June 30, 2001
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio, Time Warner Books Uk, Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781417707874
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“When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked.”
American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture
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