Consider the Lobster & Other Essays by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION] 2005

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

FIRST EDITION [2005] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY

2nd Printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is excellent; light shelf / rub wear.  

Book has a very faint stain to imprint on front boards.  Otherwise like new,  Dust jacket now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

Contains: "Big Red Son," "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think," "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed," "Authority and American Usage," "The View from Mrs. Thompson's," "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," "Up, Simba," "Consider the Lobster," "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" and "Host."