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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 Only once did Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form. The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. Vorwort David Foster Wallace, the brilliant voice of a generation, boils down everything he has learned about life in a profound and witty manifesto. Zusammenfassung David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

Product details

• Authors: David Foster Wallace, David Foster Wallace
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9780316068222
• ISBN: 978-0-316-06822-2
• Dimensions: 123 mm x 173 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Little, Brown and Company
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Popular philosophy