Zusatztext Contains longish stretches of genius Informationen zum Autor David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System , the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster . His writings have appeared in Esquire , Harper's , the New Republic , New Yorker , Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008. Klappentext An imaginative collection of short stories that interweave the banal and the bizarre with witty and seductive intelligence. * 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER Zusammenfassung * 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER

Contains longish stretches of genius

Vorwort

• 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER

Autorentext

David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. His writings have appeared in Esquire, Harper's, the New Republic, New Yorker, Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008.

Klappentext

An imaginative collection of short stories that interweave the banal and the bizarre with witty and seductive intelligence.

Zusammenfassung

• 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER