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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
$22.95 AUD
Category: Essays
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to ...Show more
Both Flesh and Not by Wallace David Foster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the st ...Show more
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranc ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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
Pale King by David Foster Wallace; Michael Pietsch (Notes by)
$25.00 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
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books - 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary ...Show more
The Broom of the System by Wallace David Foster
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The "dazzling, exhilarating" ("San Francisco Chronicle") debut novel from one of this century's most groundbreaking writers, "The Broom of the System" is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The David Foster Wallace Reader is a selection of David Foster Wallace's work, introducing readers to his humour, kindness, sweeping intellect and versatility as a writer. A compilation from the one of the most original writers of our age, featuring: the very best of his fiction and non-fiction; previou ...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