This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION] 2009

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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

FIRST EDITION [2009] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY

Sixth Printing. Small hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket has some light shelf and edge wear and some very faint discoloration.

Book itself reads like new. Tiny spot of discoloration to rear boards and small publishers mark across top of book.

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER.

How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend.

Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.