- Criticism, Essays, Nonfiction, Essays (single author)
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult-video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are enthralling narrative adventures.
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Contemporary, spare, prestige and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 343
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company, Little, Brown, Abacus Software
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780759514935
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American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture
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