Infinite JestA 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
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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.
"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." --Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic
Binding Type: Hardcover Publisher: Little Brown and Company Published: 02/01/1996 ISBN: 9780316920049 Pages: 1088 Weight: 3.19lbs Size: 9.51h x 6.31w x 2.03d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/01/1995 pg. 1666 Publishers Weekly 11/27/1995 pg. 50 Library Journal 01/01/1996 pg. 146 New York Times 03/03/1996 pg. 8 New York Times 06/16/1996 pg. 34 NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1996 pg. 80 Time 12/04/2006 pg. 120 Vanity Fair 02/01/2010 pg. 50