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Prestige, contemporary, cool and spare.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- First published
- November 1988
- Pages
- 373
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton, Brand: Morrow/Avon, W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780349111025
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First sentence
“IT'S 1976. The sky is low and full of clouds.”
About David Foster Wallace · 1962–2008
American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture
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