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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 353 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 0316919896
Release Date: Jan 4, 1999
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a collection of essays originally published in such journals, as Harper's, Esquire and Premiere, by the novelist who wrote Infinite Jest.
| | | | From The Publisher
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again collects David Foster Wallace's writings on a range of subjects that only he could bring together. From personal narratives to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory, no subject is outside the play of his imagination. In "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All," a finalist for the 1995 National Magazine Award, Wallace gorges himself on corn dogs, gawks at baton twirlers, and gropes toward the true meaning of the all-American Institution the State Fair. In the title essay, one of the most talked about (and frequently photocopied) nonfiction pieces of the-year, Wallace reports with excruciating humor the agonies of enduring forced fun on a commercial cruiseliner. Wallace's sports obsession comes out in an essay about the unfathomable gulf between professional tennis players and the merely excellent. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" explores the deep currents affecting both popular arts and literary craft, while "David Lynch Keeps His Head" is at once a portrait of the artist at work and an appreciation of the far-reaching cultural influence a popular artist can have.
| | | | Annotation
The author of Infinite Jest and Girl with Curious Hair turns his fierce curiosity and sharp, ironic sense of humor to nonfiction in his collection of musings on a wide range of topics, including the meaning of state fairs. 320 pp. Author readings. Print ads. 25,000 print.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
satire rules the modern world
-- josh, January 24, 2000
satire rules the modern world
-- josh, January 24, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"A heady, often hilarious tour of American diversions....A remarkably talented, fluid, and arresting young voice"--Entertainment Weekly
| |  | | | | 1 Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley | 3 | | 2 E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction | 21 | | 3 Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All | 83 | | 4 Greatly Exaggerated | 138 | | 5 David Lynch Keeps His Head | 146 | | 7 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again | 256 |
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