{"product_id":"oblivion-stories-9780316919814","title":"Oblivion: Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOblivion: Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e by Wallace, David Foster. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780316919814.\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.\n\nThese are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a fathers desperate loneliness by way of his sons daydreaming through a teachers 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 loves breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion).\n\nEach of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LITTLE, BROWN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44962868101173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316919810","price":34.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316919814_91f0c268-8917-4a62-875f-3afc2346b582.jpg?v=1781342344","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/oblivion-stories-9780316919814","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}