ISBN: 0759514925 9780759514928

Category: Literary Collections / Essays

Page count: 352

<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><br><br> 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?<br><br> 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.<br><br><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>