{"product_id":"oblivion-stories-9780316010764","title":"Oblivion: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the stories that make up \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (\"The Soul Is Not a Smithy\"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (\"The Suffering Channel\"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (\"Oblivion\").\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316010764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/11\/2005 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Foster Wallace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635958902940,"sku":"9780316010764","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a36b4da7-9fd5-4473-a9af-2a70c55fb216.jpg?v=1603841003","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/oblivion-stories-9780316010764","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}