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The film opens in limited release tomorrow. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories - Kindle edition by Wallace, David Foster. His new collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers. In an interview with indieWIRE, Krasinski said that he’s wanted to adapt the book since he first heard the words spoken aloud in a reading. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. Includes identificaton criteria and points of issue to help. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. Pictures of the true first edition of Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person, ' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state 'Adult World, ' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is a movie that is so unafraid to openly criticize the feminist movement and, more importantly, the effects it has had on men.

defined in a footnote (from the OED) referring to a scene in Brief Interviews. The little slip is telling, and the word abreactive, too.

Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. abreaction (en) (noun) the expression and emotional discharge of unconscious material (as a repressed idea or emotion) by verbalization especially in the presence of a therapist. In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.

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