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David Foster Wallace
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Infinite Jest |
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English |
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Paperback |
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1079 |
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2006-11-13 |
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0316066524 |
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Back Bay Books |
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2.45 pounds |
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2.15 x 6.1 x 9.25 inches |
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Tenth Anniversary ed. |
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Daniel Suhajda (USA: MI) (2007/12/19): Moments of hilarious genius interrupted by inane boredom. It took me two months just to get through 200 pages. Good Luck.
Debra (USA: OR) (2018/04/19): Description: 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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