Infinite Jest
of David Foster Wallace
Description
A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 1088 pages
- Publisher Back Bay Books
- Publication Date 10/28/05
- First Publication 02/01/96
- Language English
- ISBN 9780316921176
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Massachusetts (United States)', 'Enfield Tennis Academy', 'Ennet House', 'Tucson, Arizona (United States)', 'Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (United States)']
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