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A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again : essays and arguments / David Foster Wallace.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston ; New York ; Toronto ; London : Back Bay Books, 1998Edition: First Back Bay editionDescription: 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0316925284
  • 9780316925280
  • 9780349110011
  • 9780316919890
  • 0316919896
  • 0349110018
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Derivative sport in Tornado Alley -- E unibus pluram : television and U.S. fiction -- Getting away from already being pretty much away from it all -- Greatly exaggerated -- David Lynch keeps his head -- Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, discipline, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness -- A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again.
Summary: A collection of keen observations, witty analyses, and essays on a wide range of subjects exposes the fault lines in today's society.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 814.54 W188 Available 33111009145828
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation.



In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest .

"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 1997"--Title page verso.

Published in Boston, Massachusetts.

Derivative sport in Tornado Alley -- E unibus pluram : television and U.S. fiction -- Getting away from already being pretty much away from it all -- Greatly exaggerated -- David Lynch keeps his head -- Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, discipline, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness -- A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again.

A collection of keen observations, witty analyses, and essays on a wide range of subjects exposes the fault lines in today's society.

Includes bibliographical references.

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