First edition hardcover
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Author | David Foster Wallace |
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Cover artist | Yoori Kim |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Little, Brown and Co. |
Publication date
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December 13, 2005 |
Media type | Print (hardback, paperback) |
Pages | 343 |
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OCLC | 59360271 |
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (2005) is a collection of essays by novelist David Foster Wallace. It is also the title of one of the essays, which was published in Gourmet magazine in 2004.
The entire list of essays is as follows:
The book received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Metacritic reported the book had an average score of 68 out of 100, based on 15 reviews.
An audiobook, read by Wallace himself, was published in 2005 by Time Warner Audiobooks. The three CD set contains complete readings of the following essays: “Consider the Lobster”, “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s”, “Big Red Son”, and “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart”.