Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

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Abacus
01 February 2008

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . .

'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure . . . sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration . . . Wallace is a superb comedian of culture'

James Wood, GUARDIAN

By: David Foster Wallace
Imprint: Abacus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 50mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9780349121086
ISBN 10: 0349121087
Pages: 1104
Publication Date: 01 February 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: www.davidfosterwallace.com

David Foster Wallace is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Paris Review's Aga Kahn Prize and John Train Prize for Humour, and the O. Henry Award. He died in 2008.

Reviews for Infinite Jest

A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything NEW YORK TIMES Wallace is a superb comedian of culture ... his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight James Woods, GUARDIAN He induces the kind of laughter which, when read in bed with a sleeping partner, wakes said sleeping partner up ... He's damn good Nicholas Lezard, GUARDIAN One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory. SUNDAY TIMES