Both Flesh and Not: Essays - Softcover

Wallace, David Foster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316182389 ISBN 13: 9780316182386

Verlag: BACK BAY BOOKS, 2013

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On David Foster Wallace:

Praise for Both Flesh and Not

"Scarily astute. . . . Published originally between 1988 and 2007, these essays demonstrate Wallace's interdisciplinary approach to both pop culture and abstruse academic discourse...For Wallace devotees, these essays are required reading."--Booklist

"The Best Mind of His Generation"--A.O. Scott, New York Times

"A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing...about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humor and fervor and verve. At his best he could write funny, write sad, write sardonic and write serious. He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane. He could conjure up an absurd future...while conveying the inroads the absurd has already made in a country where old television shows are a national touchstone and asinine advertisements wallpaper our lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"One of the most influential writers of his generation."--Timothy Williams, New York Times

"A novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age....Wallace's ear for dialogue was unmatched in contemporary fiction."--Lev Grossman, Time

Reseña del editor:

Spanning twenty years of the author's work, this collection of 15 never-before-published essays includes a look at the effect that television has had on the new generation of writers and a dissection of the movie Terminator 2. 100,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: BACK BAY BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0316182389
• ISBN 13: 9780316182386
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336