Book description
'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 master of form and a brilliant recorder of human
behaviour, David Foster Wallace has been hailed as 'the most
significant writer of his generation' (TLS). Each new book confirms
and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no
exception. In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace
conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite
convolutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly,
uniquely his.
'Wallace's talent is such that you can't help wondering: how good
can he get?' TIME OUT
David Foster Wallace was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the
Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Kahn Prize and John
Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. He died in September
2008.
