Infinite jest

a novel

Paperback, 1079 pages

English language

Published 1996 by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-92004-9
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OCLC Number:
32738491

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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.

21 editions

Subjects

  • Compulsive behavior -- Fiction
  • Addicts -- Fiction