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Brief interviews with hideous men

Title
Brief interviews with hideous men / David Foster Wallace.
Author
Wallace, David Foster.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, ©1999.
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  • Publisher description

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Description
273 pages; 24 cm
Summary
A collection of 23 stories, several of which deal with misunderstandings between men and women. In one, a man assumes that women find his mutilated arm sexy, in another a wife is inhibited in her lovemaking by fear that her husband will think she is a slut.
Alternative Title
  • Radically condensed history of postindustrial life.
  • Depressed person.
  • Devil is a busy man.
Subject
Genre/Form
  • Short stories.
  • Fiction.
Contents
A radically condensed history of postindustrial life -- Death is not the end -- Forever overhead -- Brief interviews with hideous men -- Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders (XI) -- The depressed person -- The devil is a busy man -- Think -- Signifying nothing -- Brief interviews with hideous men -- Datum centurio -- Octet -- Adult world (I) -- Adult world (II) -- The devil is a busy man -- Church not made with hands -- Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders (VI) -- Brief interviews with hideous men -- Tri-Stan : I sold Sissee Nar to Ecko -- On his deathbed, holding your hand, the acclaimed new young off-Broadway playwright's father begs a boon -- Suicide as a sort of present -- Brief interviews with hideous men -- Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders (XXIV).
Call Number
JFE 99-9796
ISBN
  • 0316925411
  • 9780316925419
LCCN
98050944
OCLC
40354776
Author
Wallace, David Foster.
Title
Brief interviews with hideous men / David Foster Wallace.
Imprint
Boston : Little, Brown, ©1999.
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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Radically condensed history of postindustrial life.
Depressed person.
Devil is a busy man.
Research Call Number
JFE 99-9796
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