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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 2016
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Book details
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Published
- February 2016
- Pages
- 1104
- ISBN-13
- 9780316306058
- ISBN-10
- 0316306053
- Categories
- Fiction
About this book
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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