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Infinite jest : a novel
Title:
Infinite jest : a novel
Summary:
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. -- Amazon.com
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1079 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company,
Publication Date:
1996
ISBN:
9780316920049

9780316921176

9780349121086
Publication Information:
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, ©1996.
Call Number:
WALLACE
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