David Foster: 94 books

En cuerpo y en lo otro reúne quince ensayos inéditos en España que ponen de manifiesto la inagotable curiosidad y la tremenda versatilidad lingüística del autor de La broma infinita. La belleza del juego de Roger Federer y la apoteósica final de Wimbledon de 2006, que disputó contra...

Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller! "The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and...

After almost four decades in the music business, David Foster -- producer, arranger, songwriter, performer -- is finally ready to talk. In this compelling and outspoken memoir, Foster shares some of his incredible stories: the first time he met Barbra Streisand, as a young session player in Los Angeles;...

Monasteries and gaols: David Foster reflects that during the course of his life the monasteries have emptied while the gaols are doing nicely. Set in Goulburn and its surrounds, where Foster resides, The Contemptuary is a lament for a dying faith, a commentary on prison life and, perhaps unexpectedly...

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety...

One of David Foster Wallace's most famous essays, now available as an eBook short. Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. In this hilarious essay, originally published...

One of David Foster Wallace's most famous essays, now available as an eBook short. Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. In this hilarious essay, originally published...

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...

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing...

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously?...

Noch vor der Buchausgabe (im Frühjahr 2012) erscheint der Essay "Das hier ist Wasser" als eBook: David Foster Wallace wurde 2005 darum gebeten, vor Absolventen des Kenyon College eine Abschlussrede zu halten. Diese berühmt gewordene Rede gilt in den USA mittlerweile als Klassiker und ist...

Das lustigste Buch von David Foster Wallace jetzt exklusiv bei KiWi Eine Luxuskreuzfahrt in der Karibik – David Foster Wallace hat das Experiment gewagt und sich an Bord der Zenith begeben. Eine Woche lang hat er alles mitgemacht, was das Bordleben für den erholungsbedürftigen Urlauber bereithält...

"Ein Tarantino der Epik" Arne Willander, Welt online Fünf bisher nicht übersetzte Erzählungen von David Foster Wallace – fünf Entdeckungen. Ob der Vertriebsrepräsentant in der Tiefgarage Herz-Lungen-Massage anwendet, ein Paar in der Fiktionstherapie der Wahrheit näherkommen soll,...

Sons of the Rumour is nothing short of a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius. Foster retells the tale of the legendary eighth-century King Shahrban of Persia who, furious at his wife's infidelity, has decided to marry and then behead a fresh virgin every day. But then the king meets Scheherazade,...