
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
(Author)Description
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
Product Details
Publisher | Back Bay Books |
Publish Date | November 13, 2006 |
Pages | 1104 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780316066525 |
Dimensions | 9.1 X 5.9 X 2.3 inches | 2.5 pounds |
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Reviews
"A work of genius...grandly ambitious, wickedly comic, a wild, surprisingly readable tour de force."--Seattle Times
"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
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