{"product_id":"oblivion-stories","title":"Oblivion","description":"\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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\").\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place.\" --San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Foster Wallace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50529394622633,"sku":"9780316010764","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780316010764.jpg?v=1791504822","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/oblivion-stories","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}