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**AD-TEAM** · 12-22-2024, 03:32 PM

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Quote: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.

With a foreword by Tom Bisell.

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

Category:Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, 20th Century American Fiction, Body, Mind & Health - Fiction, Humorous Fiction, 20th Century American Fiction - 1945-2000, Addictions - Fiction, Drug Use - Fiction, Farce - Fiction, Satire

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