{"product_id":"consider-the-lobster-and-other-essays","title":"Consider the Lobster and Other Essays","description":"This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is \"brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer\" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).\n\nDo lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?\n\nDavid Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.\n\n\"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once.\" --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0316013323\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0316013323.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Wallace, David Foster\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41486650114106,"sku":"DBV.0316013323.G","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0316013323-0.jpg?v=1782238387","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/consider-the-lobster-and-other-essays","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}