This title features brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace, author of "The Pale King Beloved".
For his brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagination, David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation. Collected in "Both Flesh and Not" are fifteen essays published for the first time in book form, including writing never published before in the UK.
From "Federer Both Flesh and Not", considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece; to "The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of "Terminator 2", which deftly dissects James Cameron's blockbuster; to "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young", an examination of television's effect on a new generation of writers, David Foster Wallace's writing swoops from erudite literary discussion to open-hearted engagement with the most familiar of our twentieth-century cultural references.
A celebration of David Foster Wallace's great loves - for language, for precision, for meaning - and a feast of enjoyment for his fans, "Both Flesh and Not" is a fitting tribute to this writer who was never concerned with anything less important than what it means to be alive.
Praise for David Foster Wallace:
"A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us". (Zadie Smith).
"Wallace's essays brim with cerebral energy, acute observation and fizzing wit. Enviably good". ("Sunday Times").
"Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight ...a superb comedian of culture". ("Guardian", James Wood).
David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of the acclaimed novels "Infinite Jest" and "The Broom of the System". His final novel, "The Pale King", was published posthumously in 2011.
He is also the author of the short-story collections "Oblivion", "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" and "Girl with Curious Hair", and his non-fiction includes several essay collections and the full-length work "Everything and More".
