{"product_id":"oblivion","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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","brand":"Little, Brown Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44458375610505,"sku":"9780316010764","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/imageloader_cc350b35-baaf-4f5d-b44b-7a64b08feb00.jpg?v=1780843918","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/oblivion","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}