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. 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. 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.Įqual parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. Book reads good as new.Ī gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition with some light creasing near top of spine. Satisfaction guaranteed.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace FIRST EDITION / 16TH PRINTING LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. 'The plot of Infinite Jestâ 'which revolves around, among other things, a lost, unwatchably beautiful art film and a conspiracy among wheelchair-bound Quebecois secessionistsâ 'is decidedly secondary to the painfully funny dialogue and Wallace's endlessly rich ruminations and speculations on addiction, entertainment, art, life and, of course, tennis.' (Time 100) To help readers slice through the novel's dense thickets of prose, Wallace included 98 pages of 'Notes & Errata.' The title is from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1, in which Hamlet holds the skull of the court jester, Yorick: 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!' N. Superb, a virtually pristine copy, square, clean, and tight. Performance Cookies Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: February 1st, 1996 Pages: 1088 Language: English Related Editions (all). Publisher's quarter-bound French blue cloth spine over periwinkle paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver. 32 Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 1st edition, 256 cf. First Printing (full number line), in First State dust jacket (incorrectly spelling William Vollmann as 'Vollman' on back panel) of the author's magnum opus. According to Eggers, Infinite Jest gives the 'sense' of a writer who.

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