Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of
humour? What is John Updike''s deal anyway? And who won the Adult
Video News'' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year
Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these
questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For
this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the
three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to
document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later
he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and
risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question.
Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs
of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative
talkshow featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing
that only looks good on the radio. In what is sure to be a
much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of
the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life''s most
delicious topics.
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David Foster Wallace is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship,
the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review''s Aga Kahn Prize and
John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award.