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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316306053
ISBN-139780316306058
eBay Product ID (ePID)215353592
Product Key Features
Book TitleInfinite Jest (20th Anniversary Edition) : a Novel
Number of Pages1104 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Literary, Sports, Humorous / General
Publication Year2016
GenreFiction
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height2.1 in
Item Weight38.2 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.083
Edition DescriptionSpecial,Special edition
SynopsisThis deluxe paperback edition -- featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell -- celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest . 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., This deluxe paperback edition--featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell--celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest . 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.
Gave me the howling fantods! It's all good though.
Great read! something different from your everyday fiction. So sad that Wallace is no longer around to produce more gems like this one! Looking forward to some of his other work.