The Best American Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

The Best American Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form (Hering David)(Paperback)

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the

David Foster Wallace Reader (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,' excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like 'The Depressed

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

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?

Pale King (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending

Both Flesh And Not (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication (Wallace David Foster)(Pevná vazba)

Zapomnění - David Foster Wallace

Svůj poslední soubor povídek Zapomnění psal David Foster Wallace paralelně s již nedokončeným románem Bledý král. Kniha vyšla roku 2004. Témata osobní identity a možností porozumění i sebeporozumění se ve Wallaceových textech prolínají s nejsoučasnějšími technikami

Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/Ing Latin American Writing (Foster David William)(Paperback)

A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American

Krátké rozhovory s odpornými muži - David Foster Wallace

V Krátkých rozhovorech s odpornými muži (1999) podává David Foster Wallace zprávu o lidských bytostech zasažených úzkostí, nejistotou a osamoceností. Formálně rozmanitý soubor povídek je jakousi verbální anatomií vztahu mezi pohlavími, výpravou do světa myslí a těl

Infinite Jest (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become

The Best American Essays 2020 (Aciman Andr)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your

The Best American Essays 2021 (Atwan Robert)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz 'A warm, witty, and welcome presence who confides in her readers' (Daniel Gilbert), TheNew Yorker's Kathryn Schulz selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best

The Broom of the System (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why

Oblivion: Stories (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation'

Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback / softback)

*Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE

The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (Wilson Jason)(Paperback)

An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

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

The Best American Poetry 2020 (Lehman David)(Paperback)

The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is 'a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been

The Best American Poetry 2021 (Lehman David)(Paperback)

The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is 'a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title' (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Pevná vazba)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it

The Best American Essays of the Century (Oates Joyce Carol)(Paperback)

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and