In the Stories that make up this exuberantly praised collection, Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.
Each of these Stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate..
Or capture the ache of love\'s breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ( Oblivion ).
Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ( The Suffering Channel ).
Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father\'s desperate loneliness by way of his son\'s daydreaming through a teacher\'s homicidal breakdown ( The Soul Is Not a Smithy ).
These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind.
In the Stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.
In the Stories that make up this exuberantly praised collection, Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his
