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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace (Paperback / softback)

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Author:-Wallace, David Foster. Publisher:-Back Bay Books.

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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 ).

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PublisherLittle, Brown & Company

ISBN-100316925284

ISBN-139780316925280

eBay Product ID (ePID)176794958

Product Key Features

AuthorDavid Foster Wallace

FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterature, Poetry & Criticism

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Weight404g

Height235mm

Width153mm

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Place of PublicationNew York

Spine24mm

Author BiographyDavid 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 collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider 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.

Country of PublicationUnited States