Infinite Jest

Description

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.

First Sentence

I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

Description

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. (back cover)

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Other Editions

• Infinite JestPaperbackBack Bay Books (Little Brown and Company)2006-11-01
• Infinite JestPaperbackLittle Brown & Co (Juv Trd)1996-01-01
• Infinite JestLittle, Brown Book Group Limited1997-01-01
• Infinite JestTandem Library1997-02-01
• Infinite JestPaperbackBack Bay Books1997-02-01
• Infinite JestPaperbackAbacus1997-06-05