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The David Foster Wallace Reader

Auteur(s): David Foster Wallace
Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Sally Foster Wallace, Sean Pratt, Kristine Hvam, Ben Shenkman, Bobby Cannavale
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Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here - with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work - essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person".

Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students.

A dozen writers and critics, including Hari Kunzru, Anne Fadiman, and Nam Le, add afterwords to favorite pieces, expanding our appreciation of the unique pleasures of Wallace's writing. The result is an astonishing volume that shows the breadth and range of "one of America's most daring and talented writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) whose work was full of humor, insight, and beauty.

©2014 David Foster Wallace (P)2014 Hachette Audio

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned how to read in the first place." (Andrew Ervin, San Francisco Chronicle)
"One of the most influential writers of his generation." (Timothy Williams, The 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." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)

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Great Read but lacks Table of Contents

This book is a mishmash of several different pieces written by David Foster Wallace, from excerpts of books and short stories to random thoughts, fleshed out essays and even class syllabi. It's a really great intro to this interesting author.

My only gripe is this: the book has 167 chapters in total ranging from seconds to hours long. However, these chapters are just numbered, they are not named. This makes it quite hard to situate yourself during the listen. This was a really bad choice by the publisher and I wish they would correct it.

So I highly recommend this book, but be aware that you will need to find an external table of contents and prepare yourself to do a lot of counting to figure out where you are while listening to this book.

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