David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
A brief excerpt from BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN:
A Radically Condensed History Of Postindustrial Life When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
Esquire - Greil Marcus
...[T]he result is definitively American and confident: Martin Amis with nothing to prove....[E]ven as you might focus on details of how the story has been put together...there's less and less sense of an author; the story seems to be running on its own power, as if not even its author could stop it.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Humor & Satire
- Humorous
- Humor & Satire
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Author : Wallace, David Foster
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2000-04-01
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0316925195
ISBN-13 : 9780316925198
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.5 in x 8.2 in
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