Tourist`s Guide to Bedfordshire (Classic Reprint), Foster A. J.

Автор: Wallace, David Foster
Название: The Pale King
ISBN: 0316074225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316074223
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 13230.00 T
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Описание: The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.

The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions -- questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society -- through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.

Автор: Lipsky David
Название: Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 030759243X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307592439
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 11640.00 T
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Описание: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT

An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace's Infinite Jest tour

In David Lipsky's view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace's pieces for Harper's magazine in the '90s were, according to Lipsky, "like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming."

Then Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader's escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an "orgy of spectation"). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace's dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things--everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him--in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him--that grateful, awake feeling--the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.

A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace's own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer--of being young generally--trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and--as he tells it--what it was like to become David Foster Wallace.

"If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it's probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we're here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious."
--David Foster Wallace

Автор: Dewitt, Helen
Название: The Last Samurai
ISBN: 1784707961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784707965
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 9670.00 T
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Описание: `Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I`ve ever read` MARK HADDON`Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book` JAMES WOOD`A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form` A. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai - the father he never knew.

Автор: Foster Hal
Название: Art Since 1900
ISBN: 0500239533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780500239537
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
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Цена: 71500.00 T
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Описание: Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present.

Автор: Wallace David Foster
Название: String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication
ISBN: 1598534807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781598534801
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 12230.00 T
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Описание: An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best tennis-writer of all time" (New York Times)

Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a "near-great" junior player.

Whiting Award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.

Автор: Wallace, David Foster
Название: Broom of the System
ISBN: 0349109230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349109237
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 14180.00 T
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Описание: David Foster Wallace`s fiercely original, bracingly funny first novel, reissued to coincide with his new short story collection.

Автор: Foster John
Название: I Can Read! Oxford Poetry for 6 Year Olds
ISBN: 0192744712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192744715
Издательство: Oxford Education
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Цена: 7380.00 T
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Описание: This poetry collection for 6 year olds, with parental guidance and notes for every poem, has been created in line with the National Curriculum to support children learning to read at home and build confidence for school.

Автор: Foster Alan
Название: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
ISBN: 1784752916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784752910
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8790.00 T
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Описание: And alongside the cinematic debut comes the thrilling novel adaptation. Set years after Return of the Jedi, this stunning new action-packed adventure rockets us back into the world of Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Luke Skywalker, while introducing a host of exciting new characters.

Автор: Foster John
Название: I Can Read! Oxford Poetry for 5 Year Olds
ISBN: 0192744704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192744708
Издательство: Oxford Education
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Цена: 10480.00 T
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Описание: This poetry collection for 5 year olds, with parental guidance and notes for every poem, has been created in line with the National Curriculum to support children learning to read at home and build confidence for school.

Автор: Max D. T.
Название: Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 0147509726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780147509727
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 11030.00 T
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Описание: The acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and "emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)

Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008, David Foster Wallace has become more than the representative writer of his literary generation--he has become a symbol of sincerity and honesty in an inauthentic age, a figure whose reputation and reach grow by the day. In this compulsively readable biography, D. T. Max charts Wallace's tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace family members and friends and with access to hundreds of Wallace's unpublished letters, manuscripts, and journals, this revelatory biography illuminates the unique connections between Wallace's life and his fiction in a gripping and deeply moving narrative that will transfix readers.

Автор: Foster Jane
Название: Jane Foster`s Dress Up!
ISBN: 1787412946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787412941
Издательство: Bonnier Books
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Цена: 9890.00 T
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Описание: Let`s play dress up with fun flaps and sliders in this adorable new offering from Jane Foster.

Автор: Wallace, David Foster
Название: This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
ISBN: 0316068225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316068222
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 16180.00 T
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Описание: David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.