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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
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Description for This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Hardcover. David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 123 x 6. Weight in Grams: 178.
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. 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 ... Read more
How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in The Wall Street Journal and the London Times, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316068222
SKU
V9780316068222
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About David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace is the author of two novels; three story collections; and three nonfiction collections. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and numerous other awards. He died in September 2008.
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