Infinite Jest
4.2/ 5
28 ratings
About This Book
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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Book Details
First Published
1996
Pages
1,104 pages
Rating
4.2 / 5
Ratings
28
Editions
24
Publisher
Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd)
Language
ITA, POR, ENG
Status
Published
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