Infinite jest

Infinite jest

David Foster Wallace
Electronic eBook - 2009

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

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Foster Wallace, David
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2009.
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