Infinite jest : a novel / David Foster Wallace.
"Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the most endearingly screwed-up families in contemporary fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to 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."--Back cover.
A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316920049
- ISBN: 0316920045
- ISBN: 9780316921176
- ISBN: 0316921173
- ISBN: 9780349121086
- ISBN: 0349121087
- ISBN: 9780349108773
- ISBN: 0349108773
- ISBN: 9780316066525
- ISBN: 0316066524
- Physical Description: 1079 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1996]
- Copyright: ©1996
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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