Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: Infinite Jest
Author(s): Wallace David Foster
Brand: Wallace David Foster
Barcode: 9780316066525
Pages: 1079 Pages
Publication Date: 11/13/2006
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction