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Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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 th ...Show more
Everything And More : A Compact History of Infinty by David Foster Wallace
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical n ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times 'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Woods, Guardian 'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleepi ...Show more
Pale King by David Foster Wallace; Michael Pietsch (Notes by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of p ...Show more
Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
$29.99 NZD
Category: Humour
A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING...brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tenni ...Show more
The Pale King by Wallace David Foster
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
David Foster Wallace's final and most ambitious undertaking - an audacious, hilarious novel that will be a major international publishing event. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly-arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses ...Show more
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