infinite jest von david foster (67 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Zustand: Gut. 1079 S. By the author of The Broom of the System . ExLibris, -- sehr gutes Exemplar;; Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1625 8° , Hardcover/Pappeinband mit OU.

Paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Sg - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - 'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood, Guardian'He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up . . . He's damn good' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian'One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory' Sunday TimesSomewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . .

1081 S., OKart., gut erhalten Sprache: Englisch. Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien.

Zustand: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Italian language. 8.27x5.28x2.68 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: VERY GOOD. Second Printing with numberline to 2. Edges foxed, sound and square otherwise with tight binding and no markings; DJ is clean and bright with price of 29.95 intact.

Zustand: Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition, signed by the author, as issued by the publisher. Near Fine with light wear to wraps; a beautiful copy. The late author's magnum-opus, and one of the most important literary works to come out of the 1990s (also known as pre-subsidized time).

Zustand: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition, signed by the author as issued by the publisher. Very Good with wear to covers, small tear to foot of upper spine joint. Type on contact information label to front cover is scribbled out in ink, several pages are wavy. The late author's magnum-opus, and one of the most important literary works to come out of the 1990s (also known as pre-subsidized time, as the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment where most of the novel's actions occur is most likely either 2008 or 2009.).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. FIRST. A near fine FIRST IN DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Full number line to 1 with MV-NY. tiny spot on top edge. UNREAD.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. 2nd. First edition, 2nd printing, as per number line on copyright page. Book and dust jacket fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First Printing (full number line), in First State dust jacket (incorrectly spelling William Vollmann as "Vollman" on back panel) of the author's magnum opus. Thick 8vo: [4],1079,[1]. Publisher's quarter-bound French blue cloth spine over periwinkle paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver. Superb, a virtually pristine copy, square, clean, and tight. Time 100. "The plot of Infinite Jestâ"which revolves around, among other things, a lost, unwatchably beautiful art film and a conspiracy among wheelchair-bound Quebecois secessionistsâ"is decidedly secondary to the painfully funny dialogue and Wallace's endlessly rich ruminations and speculations on addiction, entertainment, art, life and, of course, tennis." (Time 100) To help readers slice through the novel's dense thickets of prose, Wallace included 98 pages of "Notes & Errata." The title is from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1, in which Hamlet holds the skull of the court jester, Yorick: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!" N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Uncorrected advance proof. Uncorrected advance proof. Errata loosely inserted. 1079, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Infinite Jest" is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it over and over. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, the book bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing its own entertainment value. Printed wrappers with the published cover as an image, with "Special Galleys Signed by the Author" printed at the bottom, with a marketing contact sticker at the top, crease to bottom right corner, otherwise near fine Errata loosely inserted. 1079, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

1079 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Uncorrected advance proof. Uncorrected advance proof. 1079 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Infinite Jest" is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it over and over. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, the book bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing its own entertainment value. Printed wrappers with the published cover as an image, with "Special Galleys Signed by the Author" printed at the bottom, with a marketing contact sticker at the top, some rubbing, very good plus.

First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Signed promotional of Infinite Jest laid in. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider. In 2004, Chad Harbach declared that, in retrospect, Infinite Jest "now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit." In a 2008 retrospective by The New York Times, Infinite Jest was described as "a masterpiece that's also a monster nearly 1,100 pages of mind-blowing inventiveness and disarming sweetness. Its size and complexity make it forbidding and esoteric." Time Magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.

First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider. In 2004, Chad Harbach declared that, in retrospect, Infinite Jest "now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit." In a 2008 retrospective by The New York Times, Infinite Jest was described as "a masterpiece that's also a monster nearly 1,100 pages of mind-blowing inventiveness and disarming sweetness. Its size and complexity make it forbidding and esoteric." Time Magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.

First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication on the title page, "Hello! David Foster Wallace 2/96." Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider. In 2004, Chad Harbach declared that, in retrospect, Infinite Jest "now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit." In a 2008 retrospective by The New York Times, Infinite Jest was described as "a masterpiece that's also a monster nearly 1,100 pages of mind-blowing inventiveness and disarming sweetness. Its size and complexity make it forbidding and esoteric." Time Magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace. In near fine condition. In 2004, Chad Harbach declared that, in retrospect, Infinite Jest "now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit." In a 2008 retrospective by The New York Times, Infinite Jest was described as "a masterpiece that's also a monster nearly 1,100 pages of mind-blowing inventiveness and disarming sweetness. Its size and complexity make it forbidding and esoteric." Time Magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.

Boston: Little Brown and Company. 1986. 8vo. Original publisherâs blue paper covered boards with publisherâs device stamped to front board, blue cloth spine with silver titles to spine enclosed in blue dustwrapper, pp. [xi], 3-1079, mild rubbing to top and bottom of spine, otherwise fine copy. First edition, first printing. A fine example of the cult author's magnus opus, having sold more than a million copies worldwide, 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication and provoked a myriad of literary discussion. Following the writerâs suicide in 2008, journalist D.T. Max wrote of the diversity of Wallaceâs talent in The New Yorker, "His novels were overstuffed with facts, humour, digressions, silence, and sadness. He conjured the world in two-hundred-word sentences that mixed formal diction and street slang, technicalese and plain speech; his prose slid forward with a controlled lack of control that mimed thought itself".

Unbound. Zustand: Fine. Photocopy of an early partial draft provided to the publisher. Loose quarto sheets with unprinted black stiff cardstock at the front and back acting as makeshift covers. [1], 251pp., plus seven additional "A" pages, photomechanically reproduced rectos only. With a photocopy of a two-page letter from Wallace to his agent and another of a one-page letter from his agent to Little, Brown submitting this draft, along with 20 pages of reviews of Wallace's previous work. Fine, with only subtle wear to the card wrappers. A fascinating early version of the first two sections of *Infinite Jest*, sent by Wallace's agent Bonnie Nadell to Michael Pietsch of Little, Brown and Company in June, 1992, four years before they published the book to critical acclaim. Accompanying the draft is a photo copy of a two-page typed letter from Wallace, dated April 15, 1992, to "Dear Bonnie and Gerry and Whatever Other Trusted and Hopefully Trustworthy Persons End Up Reading This." In this letter, which apparently was sent to his agents with the first two sections of the book, he describes *Infinite Jest* as "a novel, although structurally it's not much like any other novels I've seen." Wallace describes his reasons for sending sections 1 and 2 first"I am nervous about this whole thing, not only because of advance-phobias, but because there are ways in which these first 250-odd pages differ from other parts of *Infinite Jest* and from the completed project as a whole"and spends several paragraphs unpacking them. In true Wallace fashion, about a half-page following the letter's close is dedicated to "Required Caveats." Wallace notes in the letter that he estimates that "at least 30% of the material in the present sections 1 and 2 will be cut from the final completed mss.," as well as the fact that pages 195-251 are "at least a draft rougher than the first 194pp." His reasoning is that most serious editing should not be undertaken until the manuscript is finished. April 1992 was a difficult time for Wallace. According to *Rolling Stone*, he had previously been working as a towel boy at a fancy health club in Auburndale, Massachusetts. Around this time he wrote his agent Bonnie Nadell that he was considering giving up writing. In the month he sent the letter present here, he and his good friend, author Jonathan Franzen moved to Syracuse, New York, where Wallace found his second wind and wrote steadily for a year; by the summer of 1993 (he had by then moved back to Illinois), the first draft was 3/4 finished. It clocked in at over 1,700 pages. Pietsch, to whom this document was addressed, would end up editing *Infinite Jest* for Little, Brown. In an interview in *Sonora Review*, Pietsch recalls: "I received on submission from David Wallace's agent, Bonnie Nadell, around 150 pages of *Infinite Jest*, the opening section. They were wild, smart, funny, sad, and unlike any pages of manuscript I'd ever held in my hands. The range of voices and settings sent me reeling." This is likely that same draft with the differences in this draft from the final published text as complex as the novel itself. The most immediately notable are the opening pages of this draft were moved to page 27 of the book and Hal, whom Wallace called the novel's protagonist, is de-aged from 13 to 10. From there things become quite amorphous with countless small changes of names and phrases, sections rearranged upon final publication, and many parts added or greatly expanded, we suspect, becoming the basis for nearly 400 pages of the published text. A true Wallace rarity, almost certainly reproduced in very small numbers, and worthy of greater study. We could locate only one other copy, in Wallace's papers at the University of Texas.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Near Fine with light soiling, light wear to spine and light rubbing to bottom corner of textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with William T. Vollmann's name misspelled and light shelf wear. A lovely copy of the late author's magnum opus and post-modern masterpiece.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Near Fine with toning to top and bottom board edges, bumped corners, light soiling to front cover and stain to bottom of textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with William T. Vollmann's name misspelled. A lovely copy of the late author's magnum opus and post-modern masterpiece.