This Is Water
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Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address...
Published By Little, Brown and Company
Format Hardback
Category
Number Of Pages 144
Publication Date 04/14/2009
ISBN 9780316068222
Dimensions 4.75 inches x 6.75 inches
"David Foster Wallace's unbelievable graduation speech...will inspire you."—Daily Candy
"We read Wallace because he forces us to think. He makes us consider what's beneath us and around us--like water."—Alicia J. Rouverol, The Christian Science Monitor
"Think of it as The Last Lecture for intellectuals."—Time
"None of the cloudlessly sane and true things he had to say about life in 2005 are any less sane or true today...[This is Water] reminds us of [Wallace's] strength and goodness and decency--the parts of him the terrible master [the mind] could never defeat, and never will."—Tom Bissel, New York Times Book Review
"Striking...is [Wallace's] evocative insight and humor."—Mark Follman, Mother Jones