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Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
27.99 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
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
Everything And More : A Compact History of Infinty by David Foster Wallace
29.99 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical n ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
35.00 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction
* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS) Book Information: 'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a hu ...Show more
Pale King by David Foster Wallace; Michael Pietsch (Notes by)
26.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING...brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tenni ...Show more
The Pale King by Wallace David Foster
50.00 NZD
Category: General 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
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