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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 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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Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Infinite Jest
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- David Foster Wallace
- Verlag
- Back Bay Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 1104
- ISBN10
- 0316306053
- ISBN13
- 9780316306058
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Humor, Gegenwartsliteratur, Jugend, Drogen, Tennis
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1996
- Originaltitel
- Infinite Jest
- Bewertung
- 4,25 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 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.