{"product_id":"lauren-elkin-vocal-break-copy","title":"David Foster Wallace: This Is Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLittle, Brown and Company, 2009, hardcover, 144 pages, 12.1 x 17.1 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnly once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis is Water\u003c\/span\u003e. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others. After his death, it became a treasured piece of writing reprinted in \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e and the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLondon Times\u003c\/span\u003e, commented on endlessly in blogs, and emailed from friend to friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting with his one-of-a-kind blend of causal humor, exacting intellect, and practical philosophy, David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58125458866560,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/51Gk33uEOzL._SY522.jpg?v=1779285872","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/lauren-elkin-vocal-break-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}