{"product_id":"oblivion-stories","title":"Oblivion: Stories","description":"329 pp. 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.","brand":"Back Bay Books \/ Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46108634021958,"sku":"2354269","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/oblivion-stories","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}