{"product_id":"oblivion-stories-by-david-foster-wallace","title":"Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(30, 25, 21)\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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. These 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\"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. Oblivion is an arresting and hilarious creation from a writer \"whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction\" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).\n\nMister squishy --\nThe soul is not a smithy --\nIncarnations of burned children --\nAnother pioneer --\nGood old neon --\nPhilosophy and the mirror of nature --\nOblivion --\nThe suffering channel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43817664807049,"sku":"SQ9144347","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/6087\/8729\/files\/Oblivion-Stories.jpg?v=1746128453","url":"https:\/\/www.nextchapterbookmobile.com\/products\/oblivion-stories-by-david-foster-wallace","provider":"Next Chapter Books \u0026 Bookmobile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}