This audiobook is endlessly interesting and one you can rehear many times. Reviewed by dwight allen how to levitate it is almost impossible to read david foster wallaces unfinished, posthumously published. The first edition of the novel was published in april 15th 2011, and was written by david foster wallace. According to the editors note at the beginning of the book there was no synopsis or outline of the novel as a whole and months of work were needed to attempt to put together a novel that approached what may have been foster wallaces intentions.
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