FOSTER WALLACE, David.

Oblivion: Stories.

Boston: Little Brown & Company , 2004.

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“It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way": First Edition of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Light bumping to the crown and foot of the spine with a remainder mark to the top edge. Light rubbing to the front and rear panels of the dust jacket with a bump to the crown of the jacket spine. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice.

Oblivion is David Foster Wallace's third and final short story collection. "It has breathtakingly smart" stories are "epic modernism," with "big plots, absurd Beckettian humor and science-fiction-height ideas portrayed vis-a-vis slow, realistic stream of consciousness (Joel Stein, Time). It was named one of the New York Times 100 Notable books of 2004.