After being abruptly dumped by her boyfriend, a graduate student. These stories focus primarily on sexual misogyny and. John Krasinski makes his directorial debut.

These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections. The 23 stories in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men include several stories of the same title whose format is an interview with an interrogator who remains nameless and whose point of view is left completely unspoken, only showing a 'Q' when she asks something of the hideous man in question. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Contents Copyright A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life Death Is Not the End Forever Overhead Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Yet Another. The Guest echoes in its implications that tiny, haunting David Foster Wallace story from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men whose title is its own summarisation: A Radically Condensed History of. This collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers.David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation.

Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. She seemed truly affectless in relating it, open to attention but not solicitousor contemptuous, or affecting disdain or contempt, which I hate. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. A grad student (Julianne Nicholson) conducts a series of interviews with men who reveal their innermost thoughts about women. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation as one of his generation's pre-eminent talents, expanding our ides and pleasures fiction can afford.Īmong the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Reviews.

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.

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