{"product_id":"oblivion-stories","title":"Oblivion - Stories","description":"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. Oblivion is an arresting and hilarious creation from a writer \"whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction\" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).Mister squishy --The soul is not a smithy --Incarnations of burned children --Another pioneer --Good old neon --Philosophy and the mirror of nature --Oblivion --The suffering channel","brand":"Thryft Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":39900297822289,"sku":"X9422","price":13.57,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":39900297855057,"sku":"X9422","price":10.86,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":39900297887825,"sku":"X9422","price":9.77,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":39900297920593,"sku":"X9422","price":8.69,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/files\/6749.jpg?v=1717759657","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/oblivion-stories","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}