Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.The 2009 film starring Julianne Nicholson and Timothy Hutton marked the first motion picture adaptation of Wallace's work. And his hideous men, like Poe's are vexed by demons that haunt us all' ( New York Times Book Review). 'In his eccentric obsessions and his sinister experiments, Wallace is beginning to resemble another mad scientist of American literature, Edgar Allen Poe. The book was immediately praised on publication as 'a supersonic delight, a full-scale harassment of the short story form' ( LA Weekly). The title story of Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is threaded throughout the book in 'a series of monologues by various speakers… Nearly all of them are talking about sex' ( New York Times).

Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket.įirst edition of this critically praised collection of stories by Wallace, signed by him on the title page with his characteristic line drawn through his printed name. 'A SUPERSONIC DELIGHT': FIRST EDITION OF BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, SIGNED BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

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