{"product_id":"oblivion","title":"Oblivion","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eOblivion\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780316010764\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBack Bay Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the stories that make up \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (\"The Soul Is Not a Smithy\"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (\"The Suffering Channel\"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (\"Oblivion\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Oblivion | David Foster Wallace | Paperback | 9780316010764 | New | Fiction 1693455","offer_id":50817018364162,"sku":"1693455","price":32.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61ji2HGsDYL.jpg?v=1792501958","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/oblivion","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}