Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

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

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 12/01/2005
ISBN: 9780316156110
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.72w x 1.14d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2005 pg. 56
Publishers Weekly 10/10/2005 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2005 pg. 1072
Vanity Fair 12/01/2005 pg. 148
Entertainment Weekly 12/09/2005 pg. 94
Booklist 12/15/2005 pg. 14
New York Times 03/12/2006 pg. 20
Village Voice 12/23/2009 pg. 28