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.
With a foreword by Tom Bisell. "The next step in fiction...Edgy,
accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think
Gaddis. Think." --Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic
General
| Imprint: |
Back Bay Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2006 |
| First published: |
November 2006 |
| Authors: |
David Foster Wallace
|
| Dimensions: |
236 x 156 x 43mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
1079 |
| Edition: |
Tenth Anniversa |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-316-06652-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-316-06652-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780316066525 |
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