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Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace
其他書名
And Other Essays
出版
Little, Brown
, 2005-12-01
主題
Literary Collections / Essays
Philosophy / Essays
ISBN
0759514925
9780759514928
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=00OFZG6XKfoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This celebrated collection of essays from the author of
Infinite Jest
is "brilliantly entertaining...
Consider the Lobster
proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (
Cleveland Plain Dealer
).
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 three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.
"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani,
New York Times