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Consider The Lobster : Essays and Arguments - David Foster Wallace

Consider The Lobster

Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

Paperback | 21 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

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A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JEST

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talkshow featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that only looks good on the radio. In what is sure to be a much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life's most delicious topics.
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He is eloquent, scathing, precise and very funny - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Wallace's voice comes zinging off the page, reinforcing the school of thought that says he's some type of maybe-genius doing something they haven't invented a word for yet - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything - NEW YORK TIMES

Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight - James Woods, GUARDIAN

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