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Both Flesh and Not by Wallace David Foster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the th ...Show more
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times 'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Woods, Guardian 'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleepi ...Show more
Oblivion Stories by David Foster Wallace
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised ...Show more
Pale King by David Foster Wallace; Michael Pietsch (Notes by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of p ...Show more
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sport
An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best tennis-writer of all time" (New York Times) Both a onetime "near-great junior tennis player" and a lifelong connoisseur of the finer points of the game, ...Show more
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING...brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tenni ...Show more
The Pale King by Wallace David Foster
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
David Foster Wallace's final and most ambitious undertaking - an audacious, hilarious novel that will be a major international publishing event. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly-arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses ...Show more
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
$30.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Only once did David Foster 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 in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously ...Show more
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