Understanding David Foster Wallace
Series: Southern Classics Series
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: August 31, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781570038877
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Movements & Periods -- Modernism; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- History & Criticism
First sentence: Born February 21, 1962, two years after the publication of John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor, David Foster Wallace came into the world at more or less the moment American postmodern fiction came into its own.