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Oblivion

Written by: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.

These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion).

Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate. Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Short Story Witty Funny
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Robert Petkoff gives a tour de force performance--very enjoyable; even if the subject matter of these complex, highly detailed works of art could scarcely be bleaker.

Perfect performance of a modern classic

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