![]() His new collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. That may sound patronizing, but having watched this film twice now, knitting together the gossamer strands of plot while searching for. Wallace’s stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive. It's unbelievably sweet that John Krasinski put his blood, sweat, and presumably, profits from The Office into writing and directing a film adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. ![]()
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