A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human -- and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think. --Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
ISBN-13
9780316066525
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201248564
Product Key Features
Book Title
Infinite Jest
Author
David Foster Wallace
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Books
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
1104 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
1140g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
David Foster Wallace
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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