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Infinite Jest
Häftad, 1997
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
220 kr
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A new edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's iconic, bestselling novel Infinite Jest - with an introduction by Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart'We will likely not see another book like this in our lifetimes' Michelle Zauner, bestselling author of Crying in H …
Consider The Lobster
Essays and Arguments
Häftad, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
165 kr
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious …
Infinite Jest
A Novel
Inbunden, 1996
495 kr
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A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America, with a foreword by Tom Bissell. “To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Set in an addicts' halfway house and …
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
A Library of America Special Publication
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
259 kr
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An instant classic of American sportswriting—the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, “the best mind of his generation” (A. O. Scott) and “the best tennis-writer of all time” ( New York Times ) Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary …
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Häftad, 1998
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156 kr
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A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked …
Pale King
Häftad, 2012
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179 kr
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The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brillianceThe 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 …
Girl With Curious Hair
Häftad, 1996
287 kr
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Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where …
Systemets sopkvast
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
229 kr
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Lenore Beadsman har en tilltrasslad tillvaro med en försvunnen Wittgensteinstuderande farfarsmor, en dominant far som gör experiment med barnmat, en pratsam papegoja som blir frälst, en alltmer påträngande psykoterapeut – och dessutom sitter hon i en telefonväxel som har blivit vansinnig – …
This Is Water
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Inbunden, 2009
241 kr
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How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became …
Everything and More
A Compact History of Infinity
Häftad, 2010
170 kr
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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 …
Conceptualisms
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing As Contemporary Art
Av Joe Amato, David Antin m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
510 kr
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A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream traditions. Those phrases include …
Girl with Curious Hair
Inbunden, 1989
640 kr
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Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where …
Broom of the System
A Novel (Penguin Orange Collection)
Häftad, 2016
242 kr
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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 …
Something to Do with Paying Attention
Häftad, 2022
277 kr
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David Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the lipary and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished …
Blek kung
Häftad, 2012
3,4 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
245 kr
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Blek kung utspelas på skattemyndigheten i Peoria, Illinois, dit David Wallace anländer som nyrekryterad trainee. Romanen skildrar i en detaljrik, krängande och oupphörligt fascinerande form personerna som arbetar där, deras bakgrund, liv och vardag i ett arbete som är så präglat av tristess att de …
Texter
Häftad, 2013
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245 kr
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Våren 2012 återlanserade Natur & Kultur David Foster Wallaces författarskap för en svensk publik, med debutromanen Systemets sopkvast från 1987 och den postumt utgivna Blek kung . I samband med utgivningen arrangerades ett stort seminarium på Internationell författarscen i Stockholm, där de …
Consider the Lobster
And Other Essays
Häftad, 2007
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
289 kr
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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? …
Systemets sopkvast
E-bok, 2013
169 kr
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Lenore Beadsman har en tilltrasslad tillvaro med en försvunnen Wittgensteinstuderande farfarsmor, en dominant far som gör experiment med barnmat, en pratsam papegoja som blir frälst, en alltmer påträngande psykoterapeut – och dessutom sitter hon i en telefonväxel som har blivit vansinnig – …
Both Flesh And Not
Häftad, 2013
162 kr
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Both Flesh and Not combines David Foster Wallace's best-loved essays with work never before published in the UK.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 …
Pale King
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brillianceThe 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
E-bok, 2012
108 kr
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Both Flesh and Not is an collection of essays and writing from the virtuosic genius David Foster WallaceBeloved 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. …
Pale King
Ljudbok, 2011
176 kr
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Pale King, David Foster Wallace''s final and most ambitious undertaking - an audacious and hilarious look into the abyss of ordinary life. Read by the actor Robert Petkoff. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, IL, appear …
