His new collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. A Brief Word about the Transgender Movement Throughout human history, every generation has faced its own unique challenges with powerful forces rising to disfigure the human person and distort her. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation as one of his generation's pre-eminent talents, expanding our ides and pleasures fiction can afford.Īmong the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
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