Wallace David Foster - Infinite Jest - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
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. " 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
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Barcode: 9780316920049
Pages: 1079 Pages
Publication Date: 2/1/1996
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction