Infinite Jest
Author | : David Foster Wallace |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0316920045 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780316920049 |
Rating | : 4/5 (049 Downloads) |
Download or read book Infinite Jest written by David Foster Wallace and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.