A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
โ Scribed by Wallace, David Foster
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company;Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co./Hachette Book Group
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Edition
- 1st eBook ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0316090522
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Derivative sport in tornado alley -- E unibus pluram : television and U.S. fiction -- Getting away from already being pretty much away from it all -- Greatly exaggerated -- David Lynch keeps his head -- Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, discipline, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness -- A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again.
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Like the tennis champs who fascinate him, novelist Wallace (Infinite Jest; The Broom of the System) makes what he does look effortless and yet inspired. His instinct for the colloquial puts his masters Pynchon and DeLillo to shame, and the humane sobriety that he brings to his subjects-fictional or
Like the tennis champs who fascinate him, novelist Wallace (Infinite Jest; The Broom of the System) makes what he does look effortless and yet inspired. His instinct for the colloquial puts his masters Pynchon and DeLillo to shame, and the humane sobriety that he brings to his subjects-fictional or