A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again: essays and arguments
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Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1998.
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Book
Edition:
1st Back Bay ed.
Physical Desc:
353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again collects David Foster Wallace's writings on a range of subjects that only he could bring together. From personal narratives to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory, no subject is outside the play of his imagination. In "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", a finalist for the 1995 National Magazine Award, Wallace gorges himself on corn dogs, gawks at baton twirlers, and gropes toward the true meaning of the all-American Institution the State Fair. In the title essay, one of the most talked about (and frequently photocopied) nonfiction pieces of the-year, Wallace reports with excruciating humor the agonies of enduring forced fun on a commercial cruiseliner. Wallace's sports obsession comes out in an essay about the unfathomable gulf between professional tennis players and the merely excellent. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" explores the deep currents affecting both popular arts and literary craft, while "David Lynch Keeps His Head" is at once a portrait of the artist at work and an appreciation of the far-reaching cultural influence a popular artist can have.
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Wallace, D. F. (1998). A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again: essays and arguments. 1st Back Bay ed. Boston, Little, Brown and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wallace, David Foster. 1998. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments. Boston, Little, Brown and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wallace, David Foster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1998.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wallace, David Foster. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments. 1st Back Bay ed. Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1998.
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English
ISBN:
0316925284, 9780316925280
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"Back Bay books."
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Originally published in hardcover 1997.
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