David Foster Wallace
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When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel-some 1,100 pages of loose chapters, sketches, notes, and fragments-published in 2011 as The Pale King. But the unfinished King did contain a finished novella that Wallace had already considered publishing as a stand-alone volume. It is the story of a young man, a self-described “wastoid,” adrift in the suburban Midwest of the 1970s, whose life is changed forever by...
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"An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the author. A unique selection of the best interviews given by David Foster Wallace, including the last he gave before his suicide in 2008. Complete with an introduction by Foster Wallace's friend and NY Times journalist, David Streitfeld. And including a new, never-before-published interview between Streitfeld and Wallace"--
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Polish
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"Tematem powieści, której David Foster Wallace poświęcił ostatnich dziesięć lat życia, jest śmiertelna nuda. Dziesięć lat po samobójczej śmierci kultowego amerykańskiego pisarza jego dzieło w końcu trafia do rąk polskich czytelników. Przebłyski, pozornie przypadkowe stop-klatki z życiorysów osób, które łączy jedno - spotykają się w zasypanym papierami biurze Izby Rozliczeń Skarbowych, gdzie każdy dzień do złudzenia przypomina...
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English
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT
An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour
In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace’s pieces for Harper’s...
An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour
In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace’s pieces for Harper’s...
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English
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After being abruptly dumped by her boyfriend, a graduate student decides to interview a series of men about their reasons for behaving badly. What follows is an intimate portrait of the male species at their best, worst and most hilariously complex, confessing their desires, failures, frustrations and resentments.