Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace;Dave Eggers (9780316066525)
David Foster Wallace;Dave Eggers
Release Date: 10 December 1130 Format: Paperback Pages: 1079 Category: Fiction & Related Items Publisher: Back Bay Books ISBN: 9780316066525 ISBN-10: 0316066524
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.