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This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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Read by David Foster Wallace
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- Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
- ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
- Hardcover $18.00 $23.00 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
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In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was.
Writing with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
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"David Foster Wallace's unbelievable graduation speech...will inspire you."Daily Candy
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"We read Wallace because he forces us to think. He makes us consider what's beneath us and around us--like water."Alicia J. Rouverol, The Christian Science Monitor
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"Think of it as The Last Lecture for intellectuals."Time
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"None of the cloudlessly sane and true things he had to say about life in 2005 are any less sane or true today...[This is Water] reminds us of [Wallace's] strength and goodness and decency--the parts of him the terrible master [the mind] could never defeat, and never will."Tom Bissel, New York Times Book Review
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"Striking...is [Wallace's] evocative insight and humor."Mark Follman, Mother Jones
- On Sale
- May 1, 2010
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- ISBN-13
- 9781607885276
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