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<strong>Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nfiction writings by one of America's most daring and talented writers. (<em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em>).</strong><i>Both Flesh and Not</i> gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time. Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; <i>Terminator 2</i> and <i>The Best of the Prose Poem</i>; the nature of being a fiction writer and the quandary of defining the essay; the best underappreciated vels and the English language's most irksome misused words; and much more. <i>Both Flesh and Not</i> restores Wallace's essays as originally written, and it includes a selection from his personal vocabulary list, an assembly of unusual words and definitions.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316182389
ISBN-139780316182386
eBay Product ID (ePID)183040570
Product Key Features
Book TitleBoth Flesh and Not : Essays
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicTopic / Adult, Essays, Form / Essays
Publication Year2013
GenreHumour, Literary Collections
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight10.9 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Spine25mm
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author BiographyDavid Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, <em>The Broom of the System</em>, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, <em> Infinite Jest</em>, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections <em>Girl with Curious Hair</em>, <em>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men</em>, <em>Oblivion, </em>the essay collections <em>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, </em> and <em>Consider the Lobster</em>. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, <em>The Pale King</em>, was published in 2011.