Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace

by Jon Baskin

Book Overview

In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and The Pale King, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503609308
• ISBN13: 9781503609303
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"