Infinite jest
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.
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Compulsive behavior > Fiction. Rehabilitation centers > Fiction. Addicts > Fiction. United States > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
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Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780316066525
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Physical Description
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1079 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher Boston : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2006.
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