Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Zusatztext Contains longish stretches of genius Informationen zum Autor David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System , the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster . His writings have appeared in Esquire , Harper's , the New Republic , New Yorker , Paris Review and other magazines. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. David Foster Wallace died in 2008. Klappentext An imaginative collection of short stories that interweave the banal and the bizarre with witty and seductive intelligence. * 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER Zusammenfassung * 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER

Product details

• Authors: David Foster Wallace, Foster Wallace David, David F Wallace, David Foster Wallace
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.01.2001
• EAN: 9780349111889
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11188-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 202 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Abacus Paperbacks; ABACUS; Abacus Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Humorous / General, Short Stories, FICTION / Absurdist, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Humorous fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies