Infinite Jest: A Novel

ISBN: 0316920045

Author: Wallace, David Foster

Condition: Used

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America, with a foreword by Tom Bissell.To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other. -Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklySet 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 renews the idea of what a novel can do.Uproarious ... Infinite Jest shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer who can seemingly do anything. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesThe next step in fiction ... Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty ... Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think. -Sven Birkerts, The AtlanticOne of Time magazines 100 Best Novels (1923-2005)