A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Autor David Foster Wallaceen Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 1998
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316925280
ISBN-10: 0316925284
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316925284
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
David
Foster
Wallace
was
born
in
Ithaca,
New
York,
in
1962
and
raised
in
Illinois,
where
he
was
a
regionally
ranked
junior
tennis
player.
He
received
bachelor
of
arts
degrees
in
philosophy
and
English
from
Amherst
College
and
wrote
what
would
become
his
first
novel,The
Broom
of
the
System,
as
his
senior
English
thesis.
He
received
a
masters
of
fine
arts
from
University
of
Arizona
in
1987
and
briefly
pursued
graduate
work
in
philosophy
at
Harvard
University.
His
second
novel,Infinite
Jest,
was
published
in
1996.
Wallace
taught
creative
writing
at
Emerson
College,
Illinois
State
University,
and
Pomona
College,
and
published
the
story
collectionsGirl
with
Curious
Hair,Brief
Interviews
with
Hideous
Men,Oblivion,the
essay
collectionsA
Supposedly
Fun
Thing
I'll
Never
Do
Again,andConsider
the
Lobster.
He
was
awarded
the
MacArthur
Fellowship,
a
Lannan
Literary
Award,
and
a
Whiting
Writers'
Award,
and
was
appointed
to
the
Usage
Panel
for
The
American
Heritage
Dictionary
of
the
English
Language.
He
died
in
2008.
His
last
novel,The
Pale
King,
was
published
in
2011.
Recenzii
It's the kind of book you can't even put down while brushing your teeth. He's damn good. I take my hat off to him. GUARDIAN Enviably good. SUNDAY TIMES Like sea air, David Foster Wallace is so bracing. GLASGOW HERALD Brilliant. MAXIM
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This exuberantly praised--and uproariously funny--first collection of nonfiction pieces by one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time--the author of "Infinite Jest"--"reconfirms Mr. Wallace's stature as one of his generation's preeminent talents" ("New York Times").