Infinite Jest
Publisher: Back Bay Books (Little Brown and Company)
Published: 2006-11
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1104
ISBN-13: 9780316066525
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Popular American Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General; Addicts; Compulsive behavior
First sentence: I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
Description: Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the moste endearing screwed-up families in contemporary fiction. Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to dominate our livs, 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 philisophical 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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Notes: US/CAN