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Infinite Jest (20th Anniversary Edition) - by David Foster Wallace (Paperback)

Infinite Jest (20th Anniversary Edition) - by  David Foster Wallace (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>This deluxe paperback edition -- featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell -- celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of <i>Infinite Jest</i>.</b> <p/> 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, <i>Infinite Jest</i> 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. <p/> Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, <i>Infinite Jest</i> 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. <br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>David Foster Wallace wrote the novels <i>Infinite Jest</i>, <i>The Broom of the System</i>, and <i>The Pale King</i>, and the story collections <i>Oblivion</i>, <i>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men</i>, and <i>Girl with Curious Hair</i>. His nonfiction includes <i>Consider the Lobster</i>, <i>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again</i>, <i>Everything and More</i>, and <i>This Is Water</i>. He died in 2008.

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