| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Contributor(s): Wallace, David Foster (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316925195 ISBN-13: 9780316925198 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: David Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In this exuberantly acclaimed collection he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98050944 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.54" W x 8.22" (0.66 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers. |