Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - by David Foster Wallace (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays is offered by the award-winning author of the bestselling "Infinite Jest."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This celebrated collection of essays from the author of <i>Infinite Jest </i>is "brilliantly entertaining...<i>Consider the Lobster</i> proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (<i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>). </b> <p/> 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? <p/> 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. <p/><b>"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani, <i>New York Times</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Foster Wallace</b> 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, <i>The Broom of the System</i>, 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, <i>Infinite Jest</i>, was published in 1996. <p/> Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections <i>Girl with Curious Hair</i>, <i>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men</i>, <i>Oblivion</i>, the essay collections <i>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again</i>, and <i>Consider the Lobster</i>. 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, <i>The Pale King</i>, was published in 2011.
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