His life was a map that ends at the wrong destination. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live." Readers curled up in the nooks and clearings of his style: his comedy, his brilliance, his humaneness.
My job is to make some sense of it." He wanted to write "stuff about what it feels like to live. "I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today," he once said, "of which maybe 25 are important. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. This collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers.ĭavid Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation as one of his generation's pre-eminent talents, expanding our ides and pleasures fiction can afford.Īmong the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
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