I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
An edition of Infinite jest
(1996)
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
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Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the moste endearing screwed-up families in contemporary fiction. Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to dominate our livs, 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 philisophical 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.
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Saddness, Compulsive behavior, Entertainment, Tennis, Addicts, Fiction, Separatist movements, Motion pictures, Humorous stories, Family life, Coming of age, Friendship, Dominance (Psychology), Fiction, humorous, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2008-10-05, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, humorous, generalShowing 7 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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Infinite jest: a novel
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Infinite Jest
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Infinite jest: a novel
1996, Little, Brown and Company
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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.
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