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product_id: 4365105
title: "Oblivion: Stories"
price: "£14.02"
currency: GBP
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reviews_count: 13
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# Oblivion: Stories

**Price:** £14.02
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- **What is this?** Oblivion: Stories
- **How much does it cost?** £14.02 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## 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. "Stunning...Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place." -- San Francisco Chronicle

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #42,208 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #319 in Fiction Satire #445 in Short Stories (Books) #2,569 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 529 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

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*Last updated: 2026-05-04*