Infinite Jest
- ISBN-10
- 0316073857
- ISBN-13
- 9780316073851
- Series
- Infinite Jest
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 1104
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-04-13
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
Description
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
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Other editions
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- 2011
- 216 pages
- Paperback
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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