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Infinite Jest

By David Foster Wallace

Book information

Publisher
Back Bay Books
Year
1997
ISBN
0316066524, 9780316066525
Open Library ID
OL17216337M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (43048518 bytes)
Edition
10 Anv
Pages
1097\1097
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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.

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