Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays

Author:   David Foster Wallace ,  Robert Petkoff ,  Robert Petkoff
Publisher:   Little Brown and Company
Edition:   Library Edition
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9781478990994


Publication Date:   12 September 2017
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This hilarious books reveals David Foster Wallace as he delves further and further into his search for the original, the curious, or the merely mystifying. 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? Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious 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.

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Author:   David Foster Wallace ,  Robert Petkoff ,  Robert Petkoff
Publisher:   Little Brown and Company
Imprint:   Little Brown and Company
Edition:   Library Edition
ISBN:  

9781478990994


ISBN 10:   1478990996
Publication Date:   12 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Absurd and inspired and-like everyother Wallace book-it's like nothing else out there...If you don't love David Foster Wallace with all of your heart, I will punch you in the face. -- Portland Mercury Genuine, highly idiosyncratic brilliance. -- Atlanta Journal Constitution Wallace is so smart and clever he can make almost any subject seem fresh. -- Baltimore Sun


Wallace is so smart and clever he can make almost any subject seem fresh. -- Baltimore Sun Genuine, highly idiosyncratic brilliance. -- Atlanta Journal Constitution Absurd and inspired and-like everyother Wallace book-it's like nothing else out there...If you don't love David Foster Wallace with all of your heart, I will punch you in the face. -- Portland Mercury


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David Foster Wallace wrote the novels Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System, and The Pale King, and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More, and This Is Water. He died in 2008. Robert Petkoff is an actor and audiobook narrator who has won a prestigious Audie Award and multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has appeared on Chappelle's Show, Law & Order, and Quantum Leap. His Broadway credits include Sir Robin in Spamalot, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, and Tateh in Ragtime. Robert Petkoff is an actor and audiobook narrator who has won a prestigious Audie Award and multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has appeared on Chappelle's Show, Law & Order, and Quantum Leap. His Broadway credits include Sir Robin in Spamalot, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, and Tateh in Ragtime.

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