david foster wallace

His skills as a literary innovator are immense...this is an entertaining and dazzlingly innovative work...a dizzying gallop actoss the wild frontier o

A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JEST

Dit is water werd door David Foster Wallace geschreven als toespraak voor een publiek van zojuist afgestudeerde studenten. Het is in Amerika een tradi

* 'Ambitious, accomplished, deeply humorous, brilliant and witty and moving. A literary sensation' INDEPENDENT * With a new foreword by Dave Eggers

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of Infinite Jest - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous w

David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the s

* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS)

In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily "real", almost holographic evocations of historical

These eclectic stories--which have been prominently serialized in "Harper's, Esquire" and the "Paris Review"--explore intensely immediate states of mi

Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen essays.

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre

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 fa

<p>David Foster Wallace weet lezers moeiteloos mee te voeren naar plekken waar geen enkele andere schrijver ook maar in de buurt komt, zo ook in

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the

'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuos

An instant classic of American sportswriting-the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best

David Foster Wallace weet lezers moeiteloos mee te voeren naar plekken waar geen enkele andere schrijver ook maar in de buurt komt, zo ook in Korte ge

De werknemers van een belastingkantoor in Peoria, Illinois, komen in eerste instantie redelijk normaal over op David Wallace. Als tijdelijke kracht ma