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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1999] LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Dust jacket is in excellent shape; some rub wear and a small water stain along bottom of underside [see last photo]

Book itself is very good; lightly used.  Clean cover and contents read like new for the most part.  

In his startling and singular short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation as one of his generation's pre-eminent talents, expanding our ides and pleasures fiction can afford.

Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation.