{"product_id":"oblivion","title":"Oblivion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oblivion (Hardcover, 336 pages – Little, Brown and Company, 2004) – Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Foster Wallace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52367161426202,"sku":"9780316919814","price":219.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/711R-Kly9tL._SY522.jpg?v=1781717662","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/oblivion","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}