{"product_id":"brief-interviews-with-hideous-men-by-david-foster-wallace","title":"'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men' by David Foster Wallace","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"488\"\u003eThis collection is built from stories, fragments, questionnaires, monologues and the recurring “interviews” of the title: one-sided conversations in which men explain their desires, cruelties, grievances and elaborate methods of self-exoneration. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"1079\"\u003eThe book moves through sexual shame, emotional dependency, depression and the fear of genuine intimacy, repeatedly asking whether extreme self-awareness produces moral clarity or merely more sophisticated camouflage. Its comedy is ferocious, though the collection is not simply a tribunal; Wallace remains uncomfortably alert to the loneliness, panic and thwarted desire inside the grotesque performances. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1412\"\u003eVoices interrupt themselves, footnotes colonise the page, and stories dismantle their own premises while the reader is still inside them. It is a book for readers interested in experimental fiction, masculinity and the hazards of turning every feeling into an argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1414\" data-end=\"1527\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbacus paperback, 2000; first British edition. Light edge and corner wear; clean interior.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45869427458131,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-27T181127.831.png?v=1785139901","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/brief-interviews-with-hideous-men-by-david-foster-wallace","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}