- Saddness, Compulsive behavior, Entertainment, Tennis
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…
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- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 1104
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd), Tandem Library, Little Brown & Company
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780349121086
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“I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.”
American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture
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