David Foster Wallace: This is Water | Buch

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Cover: 9780316068222 | This is Water | David Foster Wallace | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Only once did Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form. The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others.

Über den Autor

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996.

Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	137
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780316068222
ISBN-10:	0316068225
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wallace, David Foster
Hersteller:	Hachette Book Group USA Grand Central Publishing Little, Brown and Company
Maße:	168 x 117 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	David Foster Wallace
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.06.2009
Gewicht:	0,172 kg

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