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Consider the lobster, and other essays

1st ed.
  • 4.06 ·
  • 17 Ratings
  • 30 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 19 Have read

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? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

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Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
343

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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
July 2, 2007, Back Bay Books
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Table of Contents

Big red son
Certainly the end of something or other, one would sort of have to think
Some remarks on Kafka's funniness from which probably not enough has been removed
Authority and American usage
The view from Mrs. Thompson's
How Tracy Austin broke my heart
Up, Simba
Consider the lobster
Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
Host.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
814/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.A425635 C66 2005, PS3573.A425635C66, PS3573.A425635 C66 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
343

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3397783M
ISBN 10
0316156116
LCCN
2005010886
OCLC/WorldCat
244642394, 59360271
Library Thing
29603
Wikidata
Q116608808
Goodreads
6751

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