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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-11-06 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: Little Brown and Company 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 Camerons blockbuster; to Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young. an examination of televisions effect on a new generation of writers. David Foster Wallaces writing swoops from erudite literary discussion to open-hearted engagement with the most familiar of our twentieth-century...
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"The Best Mind of His Generation"-- New York Times "A.O. Scott "
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"Scarily astute. . . . Published originally between 1988 and 2007, these essays demonstrate Wallace's interdisciplinary approach to both pop culture and abstruse academic discourse...For Wallace devotees, these essays are required reading."--Booklist
"The Best Mind of His Generation"--A.O. Scott, New York Times
"A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing...about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humor and fervor and verve. At his best he could write funny, write sad, write sardonic and write serious. He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane. He could conjure up an absurd future...while conveying the inroads the absurd has already made in a country where old television shows are a national touchstone and asinine advertisements wallpaper our lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"One of the most influential writers of his generation."--Timothy Williams, New York Times
"A novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age....Wallace's ear for dialogue was unmatched in contemporary fiction."--Lev Grossman, Time
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On David Foster Wallace:
"The Best Mind of His Generation"-- New York Times "A.O. Scott "
"The Best Mind of His Generation" A.O. Scott, "New York Times""
Praise for Both Flesh and Not
"Scarily astute. . . . Published originally between 1988 and 2007, these essays demonstrate Wallace's interdisciplinary approach to both pop culture and abstruse academic discourse...For Wallace devotees, these essays are required reading."--Booklist
"The Best Mind of His Generation"--A.O. Scott, New York Times
"A prose magician, Mr. Wallace was capable of writing...about subjects from tennis to politics to lobsters, from the horrors of drug withdrawal to the small terrors of life aboard a luxury cruise ship, with humor and fervor and verve. At his best he could write funny, write sad, write sardonic and write serious. He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane. He could conjure up an absurd future...while conveying the inroads the absurd has already made in a country where old television shows are a national touchstone and asinine advertisements wallpaper our lives."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"One of the most influential writers of his generation."--Timothy Williams, New York Times
"A novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age....Wallace's ear for dialogue was unmatched in contemporary fiction."--Lev Grossman, Time
David Foster Wallace wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System 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.
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