Oblivion

“Breathtakingly smart”—Time

“The stories of the infinitely talented David Foster Wallace transport the lucky reader into an absurd and magnificent Oblivion.”—Vanity Fair

“A peerless combination of intelligence, compassion, and lyricism that needs no apology or qualification.”—Elle

“Stunning…Wallace is an astounding storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“If there is a literary avant-garde remaining in American fiction today, then David Foster Wallace is its leader.”—Newark-Star Ledger

“Wallace is a writer who still believes in asking readers to participate actively in the experience of literature, even when he's being aneurysm-inducingly funny.”—Toronto Globe and Mail

“The real joy of reading these stories is not in Wallace ferry us from point A to point B, but in watching his reptilian intelligence slither and snake across the page, flicker out its forked tongue, and nab yet another linguistic fly off the wall.”—Denver Post

“David Foster Wallace's brilliance lies in his ability to expose a character with a mass of bubbling afflictions and life-sustaining neuroses, yet make the reader care deeply for him and his absurd existence.”—Chicago Tribune

“Many of Oblivion's rewards come by way of Wallace's sheer mastery of craft. His sentences cackle and swoon, patiently peeling back layers of artifice that cloak the BIg Questions.”—The Onion