Both Flesh and Not: Essays
Author: David Foster Wallace
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by “one of America’s most daring and talented writers.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace’s seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.Never has Wallace’s seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearl….Read More
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