David Foster Wallace~SIGNED~Oblivion~1st/1st~FINE/FINE~BEAUTIFUL!!

Description: OBLIVIONBy David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) An Incredible Gift Idea ! - for a friend - or just for yourself ! Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2004. Hardcover. SIGNED! SIGNED! SIGNED! Beautiful, Like New! EXTREMELY RARE!!! Stated First Edition, First Printing!Full number Line - 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Personally signed by David Foster Wallace directly on the full title page.(NOT signed to anyone) Bonus: A copy of the event announcement for David Foster Wallace's San Francisco signing event will be included with the signed book! Book is in Fine, Like New condition. Tight and square, no marks, no inscriptions. Dust Jacket is in Fine, Like New condition, no edge wear, and NOT price-clipped. Book is in a removable, protective mylar cover. AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE, AND EXTREMELY RARE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT BOOK! A TRUE COLLECTOR'S COPY!!! A Must Have For Any David Foster Wallace Fan !! ~ A BEAUTIFUL AUTOGRAPHED FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING FOR COLLECTORS ~ In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.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).Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. About the Author David 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, The Broom of the System, 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, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Oblivion and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. 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, The Pale King, was published posthumously in 2011. Please Check out my other items! **** FREE PRIORITY MAIL SHIPPING TO U.S. RESIDENTS **** Shipping & Handling: Standard shipping to U.S. buyers is via USPS Priority Mail and includes insurance (Estimated delivery time according to USPS is about 2 - 5 business days). Express Mail is available upon request for additional fees. International rates may be higher depending on destination. Please email questions. All books are padded securely in bubble wrap to prevent damage. Payments: We accept PayPal. (Please note that if payment is made by echeck, shipping will be delayed until echeck is cleared). All items must be paid for within 5 days or will be re-listed.

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