Infinite Jest (Tenth Anniversary)

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Price
$24.99  $23.24
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Publish Date
Pages
1104
Dimensions
5.9 X 9.1 X 2.3 inches | 2.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780316066525
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About the Author
David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.
Reviews
"Uproarious...Infinite Jest shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"A work of genius...grandly ambitious, wickedly comic, a wild, surprisingly readable tour de force."--Seattle Times
"A virtuoso display of styles and themes...There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page." --Time