Brief interviews with hideous men
By: David Foster Wallace
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A collection of 23 stories, several of which deal with misunderstandings between men and women. In one, a man assumes that women find his mutilated arm sexy, in another a wife is inhibited in her lovemaking by fear that her husband will think she is a slut.
Table of contents: title: A radically condensed history of postindustrial life; title: Death is not the end; title: Forever overhead; title: Brief interviews with hideous men; title: Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders (XI); title: The depressed person; title: The devil is a busy man; title: Think; title: Signifying nothing; title: Brief interviews with hideous men; title: Datum centurio; title: Octet; title: Adult world (I); title: Adult world (II); title: The devil is a busy man; title: Church not made with hands; title: Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders (VI); title: Brief interviews with hideous men; title: Tri-Stan : I sold Sissee Nar to Ecko; title: On his deathbed, holding your hand, the acclaimed new young off-Broadway playwright's father begs a boon; title: Suicide as a sort of present; title: Brief interviews with hideous men; title: Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders (XXIV)