A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do again

Zusatztext Brilliant. 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 A collection of essays on a variety of subjects, from tennis players to cruises, from the author of the fictional title "Infinite Jest". "Animated by wonderfully exuberant prose" "New York Times". *Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST. Zusammenfassung *Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST.

Product details

• Authors: David Foster Wallace, David F Wallace, David Foster Wallace, Wallace David Foster
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.1998
• EAN: 9780349110011
• ISBN: 978-0-349-11001-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: ABACUS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Prose: non-fiction, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Humorous fiction, Biography and non-fiction prose, Satirical fiction and parodies