Synopsis Wallace's innovative stories include a lesbian love story involving a JEOPARDY winner and a researcher for the show; a memoir by a fictional aide to LBJ; and a rich kid who hangs out with rock stars and tells his tale in the voice of a proper English schoolboy.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1989-08-01 |
Industry Reviews "[A] dynamic writer of extraordinary talent.... Powerful, fixating, explosive and mysterious...succeeds in restoring grandeur to modern fiction. New York Times Book Review - Jennifer Levin
"David Foster Wallace turns the short story upside down and inside out, making the adjectives 'innovative,' 'unique,' and 'original' seem blase." Book Jacket - T. Coraghessan Boyle
"[O]pened the door to a whole new approach to American short fiction....The stories are brilliant, wildly imaginative, and had a strong impact on many younger writers when they were first published." Harper's - Vince Passaro (08/19/1999)
"As startling and barometrically accurate as anything in recent decades. Wallace is, for better or worse, the savvy and watchful voice of the NOW." Boyle
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