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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. 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
Infinite Jest (Tenth Anniversary)
$24.99
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- November 13, 2006
- ISBN
- 9780316066525
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Pages
- 1104
- Language
- English
- BISAC
- Fiction | LiteraryFiction | ClassicsFiction | Sports
- Related subjects
- Compulsive behavior, Addicts, Humorous stories