| Authors: |
Wallace, David Foster.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Essays.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012. |
| Description: |
vii, 328 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780316182379 (hc) : 0316182370 (hc) |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents: |
Federer both flesh and not -- Fictional futures and the conspicuously young -- The empty plenum : David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress -- Mr. Cogito -- Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open -- Back in new fire -- The (as it were) seminal importance of Terminator 2 -- The nature of the fun -- Overlooked : five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960 -- Rhetoric and the math melodrama -- The best of the prose poem -- Twenty-four word notes -- Borges on the couch -- Deciderization 2007 : a special report -- Just asking. |
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| Summary: |
A compilation of fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time. |