Infinite Jest

Infinite JestA 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

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.

"The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." --Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic



Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 02/01/1996
ISBN: 9780316920049
Pages: 1088
Weight: 3.19lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.31w x 2.03d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/01/1995 pg. 1666
Publishers Weekly 11/27/1995 pg. 50
Library Journal 01/01/1996 pg. 146
New York Times 03/03/1996 pg. 8
New York Times 06/16/1996 pg. 34
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1996 pg. 80
Time 12/04/2006 pg. 120
Vanity Fair 02/01/2010 pg. 50