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Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace (1st Edition 2nd

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Item specifics

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Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
Features
Dust Jacket
Edition
First Edition, Second Printing
ISBN
9780316156110

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316156116
ISBN-13
9780316156110
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46587406

Product Key Features

Book Title
Consider the Lobster : and Other Essays
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Essays
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Literary Collections
Author
David Foster Wallace
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-010886
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Synopsis
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 also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters., This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining... Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ). 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 also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters. "Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, This brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays is offered by the award-winning author of the bestselling "Infinite Jest."
LC Classification Number
PS3573.A425635C66

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  • by ecrutle01
    12 Oct, 2022

    Curious and curiousness

    I was pleasantly surprised this wasn’t an early woke publishing dive by an acedemicoian taking advantage of tenure downtime. It’s far more pithy, genuine and approachable than knee jerk liberal whining, inventing mythical entitlement and genders, like common today. He obviously had his demons, but his writing has a pleasant cadence and doesn’t demand belief in Fairy dust. Consider The Lobster invites you to do just that, with a modicum of guilt, wince, but no thought about discarding melted butter or mealtime bibs.

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