- Fiction, Humor (Nonfiction), Wit and humor, American Wit and humor
A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate.
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Spare, contemporary, character-led and prestige.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 353
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316090520
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“When I left my boxed township of Illinois farmland to attend my dad's alma mater in the lurid jutting Berkshires of western Massachusetts, I all of a sudden developed a jones for mathematics.”
American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture
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