Infinite Jest

Author: David Foster Wallace

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Price : 32.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780316066525
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Imprint : Back Bay Books
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Weight (g) : 1.14
Publication date : July 2006
Dimensions : 235mm X 152mm X 44mm
Produced in : United States
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Author : David Foster Wallace
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 2006
Pages : 1079
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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.