Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1999

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1999] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Dust jacket has some shelf / edge wear; a few nicks.  Looks great in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. Book itself is near mint and reads as new-- *water damage to rear endpaper with a corresponding water stain to corner of last page or two [very minor - see last photo]   In his startling and singular short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognizable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation as one of his generation's pre-eminent talents, expanding our ides and pleasures fiction can afford.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 ag